All that remains of the Pigeon ForgeGreat Smoky Mountains National ParkAll that remains of the Pigeon Forge... the hammer. The hammer, weighing about 700 pounds, was operated by water power and hammered out the pigs after the ore was smelted. (See also III-A-Gen-4365-4367, incl.).Forge; Pigeon Forge, Tenn. III-A-Gen-12243, History - Artifacts - Miscellaneous (Davis pen; chinking; traps; playhouses; gold mining)
Clyde skidder. Family cow shared life in Smokies Logging Camp, Tennessee Travels by Vic Weals The Knoxville Journal, October 18, 1976. circa before 1920Great Smoky Mountains National ParkClyde skidder. Family cow shared life in Smokies Logging Camp, Tennessee Travels by Vic Weals The Knoxville Journal, October 18, 1976. This was a Clyde log-skidding machine of the kind Curtis McCarter worked on, from 1916 when he was 16 years old, until about 1923 when he was a husband and a father. from Maryville Times.Clyde Overhead Skidder; Little River Lumber Co. III-L-4173, History - Logging, Lumbering, Hewing, Sawmilling
View of machine excavation with backhoe for septic tank, comfort station in background, Cable Mill Area, TennesseeGreat Smoky Mountains National ParkCompletion report photo. Work order No. B-52 GRSM. Machine excavation with backhoe for septic tank. Backhoe was also used to excavate for sewer lines and leaching field. Note: Comfort station in background.Cable Mill septic tank and leaching field; Reconstruction, II-U-Sewer-7150, Physical Facilities - Utilities - Sewer systems
Earth mover moving rocks at blasting site at channel change curve, Oconaluftee River, North CarolinaGreat Smoky Mountains National ParkStation 582+50 to 583+00. BPR report to Todd Blasting at channel change curve...Looking north on US-441...Rock and tree blow into river; rock on right bank of river deposited by blast.Project 1B8, II-R-1B8-7861, Physical Facilities - Roads - Construction of Project 1B8 on Newfound Gap Road, North Carolina