Still at Camp Morgan
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
General view.Still at Camp Morgan; Camp NP-2; Gatlinburg TN, III-A-Still-12264, History - Artifacts - Moonshine Stills
Still at Camp Morgan
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
General view.Still at Camp Morgan; Camp NP-2; Gatlinburg TN, III-A-Still-12263, History - Artifacts - Moonshine Stills
Stills confiscated within the park by park rangers
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stills confiscated within the Park by Park Rangers (at Camp Morgan, Camp NP-2, Gatlinburg TN).Stills, III-A-Still-12270, History - Artifacts - Moonshine Stills
Stills confiscated within the park by park rangers
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stills confiscated within the Park by Park Rangers (at Camp Morgan, Camp NP-2, Gatlinburg TN).Stills, III-A-Still-12269, History - Artifacts - Moonshine Stills
Stills confiscated within the park by park rangers
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Stills confiscated within the Park by Park Rangers.Stills, III-A-Still-12268, History - Artifacts - Moonshine Stills
Stone masonry wall in left foreground, Newfound Gap Highway
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1430, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Newfound Gap Highway, Stone masonry wall, Newfound Gap Highway, 1A1, Station 156/00 to 158/25, showing completed wall with structural excavation and debris piled between wall and stream.
Stone masonry wall on the Clingmans Dome Road, trees framing road and wall, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1433, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Clingmans Dome Road, Stone masonry wall on the Clingmans Dome Road.
1935-01-04
Stone masonry wall, Station 215-216/10, showing wall excavation piled along stream, stream in right foreground, trees in background
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1419, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Highway, Stone masonry wall, Station 215-216/10, showing wall excavation piled along stream.
Stone retaining wall, before planting, trees in background, Big Creek, Mount Sterling Trail, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1451, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Retaining; Big Creek-Mt. Sterling Trail, Before planting.
1935-03
Stone wall at left, Project 1A1, Newfound Gap Highway, Station 156/00 to 158/25, stream at right, trees in background, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1431, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Newfound Gap Highway, Project 1A1, Newfound Gap Highway, Station 156/00 to 158/25.
1935-01-04
Superintendent Frierson in foreground.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Superintendent Frierson in foreground.Ramsay Cascades Foot Trail, II-Tf-11569, Physical Facilities - Trails - Foottrails, Fire Lanes, Manways
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting.Davenport Gap Parking Area, II-P-Gen-11415, Physical Facilities - Parking Areas - Miscellaneous Parking Areas
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting.Davenport Gap Parking Area, II-P-Gen-11416, Physical Facilities - Parking Areas - Miscellaneous Parking Areas
Tanning
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The harness on the horse was made by Mr. Messer from leather which he tanned - the shoes which Mr. Messer is wearing the these pictures were also made by himself from leather the tanned. The horse, in walking in a circle around the bark mill, pulls the beam in which the spindle of the mill is set.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12655, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Tanning
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dipping the spend bark out of the tanning vat with a wooden strainer before renewing the ooze" with fresh bark.", Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12638, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
The bark mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The bark mill.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12652, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
The bark mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The bark mill...the horse pulling the sweep revolves an iron spindle in the center of the mill. This spindle, as well as the walls of the outside cylinder, are studded with iron spikes. As this spindle revolves in the cylinder, the spikes tear up and shred the bark...note how the secondary sweep leads the horse in a circle around the mill.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12654, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
The highest point reached by road in the Park
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The highest point reached by road in the Park: elevation 6,311 ft.Forney Ridge Parking Area, II-P-FR-11458, Physical Facilities - Parking Areas - Forney Ridge Parking Area
The liming trough
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The liming trough...mixing the lime and water before putting the hides to soak.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12635, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
The soaking trough
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The soaking trough...a hide being put to soak.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12634, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
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