Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community, 1818-1937

336 Pages·1988·21.38 MB·English

by  Durwood Dunn

Cades Cove
A Southern Appalachian Community
Durwood Dunn
CadesCove
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF
A Southern Appalachian Community
1818-1937
THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PRESS
Copyright © 1988 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville.
All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America.
Cloth: 1st printing, 1988; 2nd printing, 1989.
Paper: 1st printing, 1988; 2nd printing, 1988; 3rd printing, 1989;
4th printing, 1989; 5th printing, 1992; 6th printing, 1995;
7th printing, 1997; 8th printing, 2000; 9th printing, 2002;
10th printing, 2005; 11th printing 2007.
Frontispiece: John Cable’s Mill, 1934, from the Oliver Family Collection.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Dunn, Durwood, 1943–
Cades Cove: the life and death of a southern
Appalachian community, 1818–1937.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Cades Cove (Tenn.)—History. 2. Cades Cove
(Tenn.)—Economic conditions. 3. Cades Cove (Tenn.)—
Social conditions. I. Title.
F444.C26D86 1988 976.8’885 87–18212
eISBN 10: 1-57233-764-8
eISBN 13: 978-1-57233-764-0
Dedicated to
the First and the Last
John Oliver
Who Lived In Cades Cove

Contents
Preface xiii
Settlement and Early History
1 1
2 The Impact of the Wilderness 23
3 The Market Economy 63
4 Religion and the Churches 99
5 The Civil War 123
6 The Folk Culture 143
7 Family Life and Social Customs 179
8 Government, Law, and Politics
201
9 Progressivism and Prohibition
221
10 Death by Eminent Domain 241
Epilogue 255
Notes 259
Bibliography 297
Index 309

Illustrations
John Cable's Mill ii
Map of the Coves of Blount County 8
Cades Cove Quadrangle Map 12
Map of Overlapping Titles 15
Cades Cove Tour Map 18
John Oliver Cabin; Peter Cable Cabin;
and Carter Shields Cabin 36-37
Elijah Oliver Cabin; Henry Whitehead House;
and Oliver-Tipton House 38-39
Gregory Bald from Cades Cove 47
John W. Oliver Farm; George Tipton's Barn 48
Elijah Oliver Homestead 49
House and Office of Dr. Thomas McGill 50
The Fisher Place: Barn and Silo;
Modern Barn and Silo 51
Henry Whitehead House 52
The Original John Oliver Cabin 53
Noah Burchfield's Barn; Powell Home 54
Witt Shields House 55
William Howell Oliver Home and Farm 56
Dave Sparks Home; Burchfield Home 57