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Images of the Old Stone House
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Beautiful in any season, this old house has stood a sometimes lonely vigil on a hill overlooking the Tennessee River valley foothills. Ask what the old stone house has seen and you might get this reply:
1700's. First built. Indian territory, very few neighbors and they were in log cabins long since gone. Quiet and peaceful most of the time, this was a frontier. This area first became a state - North Carolina. Later it was changed to the state of Franklin. Finally, in 1796, the state of Tennessee.
1800's. Times of trouble. Tensions brewed as the conflicts over slavery escalated. And the Civil War raged, with battles not far away, and skirmishes right here. In fact, there are still scars on the house where cannon balls hit the stone walls.
1900's. More neighbors. Folks began to move here in numbers. The mighty Tennessee river was dammed at nearby Fort Loudon, the Little Tennessee and Tellico rivers too. Logging continued bigtime in the Appalachian mountains here, until the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created in the 1930's.
2000's. Even more neighbors. Knoxville (30 miles upstream on the Tennessee river) continues to be the hub city for east Tennessee. Tourists flock to the Great Smokies, to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. Retirees build their dream homes on the lakes and on all the old small farms. But the Old Stone House sits relatively unchanged, with just enough modernization to keep it functional and in good repair.
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