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229th BEB celebrates 2018 efforts at annual holiday meal
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Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fredericksburg-based 229th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team celebrate their accomplishments at their annual holiday meal Dec. 1, 2018, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the Adjutant General of Virginia, joined the unit for a turkey dinner with friends and family, and helped present awards to many of the battalion’s Soldiers, including those who deployed to help recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence. The Soldiers were greeted at the event by a large American flag hoisted by fire trucks from Fredericksburg Fire Department and Stafford County Fire and Rescue. (U.S. National Guard photo by Mike Vrabel)
2014 Thanksgiving Meal
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Army leaders express gratitude to Service members, civilian employees and families by serving a traditional Thanksgiving meal Nov. 27. Warrior Country dining facilities were decorated in seasonal colors, baked goods and a cornucopia of fruit and vegetables.
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Broken Bow – Nov 13-15, 2009: Steve, Sally, Mom and I made an impromptu trip to Broken Bow / Hochatown. We relaxed in a great cabin and visited Broken Bow Lake and the park and ate a couple of good meals at the local steakhouse.
Legoland Windsor 04-05-12
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Legoland Windsor 04-05-12
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3_Tom and Mary Rutherford thrive on political connections and railroad subsidies
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The Most “Civil Warred” Home – Unburned – in Jefferson County (1) – J. Surkamp
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But what Confederate Generals J.E.B. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson had in common with Federal commanding General Ulysses S. Grant; General Philip Sheridan, and General Nathaniel Banks – are the first floor rooms of Thomas and Mary Rutherford’s home on Washington Street in Charles Town, WV, today the Carriage Inn. They all spent time there, having fun or plotting.
This is the story of The Rutherford House/Carriage Inn during the Civil War seen through the eyes mainly of Richard Duffield Rutherford, a ten-year-old in 1860, who got around quite a bit, mirroring the rhythms and terrors of daily life in Charlestown during The Troubles.
Summary:
2_Thomas and Mary Rutherford and their eight children
Thomas and Mary Rutherford and their eight children – alongside the war’s flailing claws – had a flag made for Stonewall Jackson to take into battle in 1861 at First Manassas/Bull Run; entertained at dinner Federal General Nathaniel Banks with Stonewall’s returned flag precariously hidden away in an upstairs hearth; enjoyed Sam Sweeney’s banjo as he sat beside Gen J.E.B. Stuart who was visiting and sharing momentos with the family of his ride around Gen. McClellan’s army in October, 1862. They cared for wounded in late 1862, one who died and they buried. Daughter Mary dodged a bullet fired at her upstairs window, all while our callow narrator, Richard, nosed around town, saw things, and above all daily milked their two cows, that he often had to roam to find, bribing thankful Federal pickets with pie.
Then the most historic two hours at Rutherford House/Carriage Inn was the meeting of Federal Generals Grant and Sheridan (almost two years to the day after the terrible Antietam/Sharpsburg battle), having surrounded the Rutherford home with a huge security cordon, and used new information smuggled into them by an African-American named Thomas Laws – correctly convincing them the time was propitious to attack Confederate General Jubal Early on the Opequon Creek.
A lasting memory after the war was, for Richard, – one night sky’s hideous glow in all directions from the burning barns and, in some cases, homes torched as part of General Sheridan’s punitive campaign through the Valley, the one where his orders from Grant were curt and cruel – so that, to periphrase, a crow flying overhead would have to carry its own rations.
Meantime the Rutherfords ate, starved, baked, sheltered, hid, entertained and prayed for the end – the real and final end – to this war that left their town changed forever, with a past obliterated and eclipsed.
Chapterettes:
1. Tom and Mary Rutherford thrive on political connections and railroad subsidies.
2. The Fissure Opens – John Brown nails the issue and is hanged.
3. July, 1861: The flag from “The Ladies of Jefferson County” & first time, face-to-face with Federals
4. Future Federal General Francis Barlow bemoans Charlestown.
5. A Rutherford relative teases the Federal pickets.
6. Sister Virginia recounts how the gift flag comes back to the Rutherfords.
7. February 27-28, 1862 Federal General Nathaniel Banks crossed the Potomac with 30,000 men.
8. A misunderstanding about “church” music at the Charlestown Presbyterian church
9. Tempers flash over stolen pigs, poultry and cows.
10.Young Richard Rutherford had much better luck with the Rutherford’s cows thanks to food bribes.
11.Gen. Banks dines with the Rutherfords.
12.“We don’t want him!” said the Confederates.
1.Tom and Mary Rutherford thrive on political connections and railroad subsidies:
3_Tom and Mary Rutherford thrive on political connections and railroad subsidies
In 1860 Thomas Rutherford had ,000 in real estate and ,000 in personal property, largely from the estate left his wife, Mary, by her father, Richard Duffield, who first built and leased the train depot near his home in 1839 to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, that still stands in 2014. Their wealth was often in the form of United States dollars in the payments from the Baltimore and Ohio. Because their wealth was not in Virginia lands, enslaved persons or Confederate paper; the family still had about half their reported wealth ten years later in 1870. Their son-in-law, Cleon Moore, in fact, would build next door, becoming a lawyer for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad after the war.
1859:
2. The Fissure Opens – John Brown nails the issue and is hanged.
4_I was sitting on a wall fence back of the Episcopal Church. The rope was arranged
Richard Rutherford wrote of that day:
John Brown was hanged on December 2, 1859 in the morning. I was sitting on a wall fence back of the Episcopal Church. The rope was arranged, the black cap adjusted. The sheriff came down the steps of the scaffold.
5_the body swung and in a few moments
The signal was given, the rope cut, the body swung and in a few moments, it was all over. Everything was done quietly. In a few minutes he was pronounced dead. – Rutherford, p. 21.
1861:
3. July, 1861: The flag from “The Ladies of Jefferson County” & first time, face-to-face with Federals
Rutherford recalled:
6_My sister presented a handsome Virginia State Flag
My sister (Virginia) had raised money and presented to the Second Virginia regiment of that Brigade a handsome Virginia State Flag. (On the back side there was a banner “from the Ladies of Jefferson County”). This was their Brigade flag in this battle. – Rutherford, p. 24.
In 1920 Mrs. Virginia Rutherford McMechem, Richard’s sister, wrote down the colorful history of the flag/banner:
The flag, which was ordered and made in Richmond for the 2nd Virginia Infantry of local enlistees, arrived in Winchester, Va. on the 17th July, just as the Brigade was about to leave for Manassas Junction on the 18th of July. The 1st (Stonewall) Brigade marched out of Winchester with the flag flying at the head of the Second Virginia Regiment. The purchase money was given me by Thomas Rutherford of Charles Town and several of his friends as a gift to the Regiment. Thomas Rutherford did not desire to appear so prominent in the matter, so it was allowed to go as from the Ladies of Jefferson County. On the 21st of July, date of 1st Manassas, this was the only flag carried into the battle by the First Brigade and the only Virginia flag in Jackson’s command, other troops being put under his command after he arrived on the field. – Virginia Rutherford McMecham, letter 1920.
Richard Rutherford’s first encounter with Federal soldiers:
7_I was frightened never having seen a Yankee soldier
On July 17, 1861 – I was frightened never having seen a Yankee soldier before and thinking of them as some sort of desperate creature who would kill us all. (But) The Yankees rode into town but did not seem to disturb anyone. . .My father said it was just a scouting party. Shortly after (Federal) General Robert Patterson did advance with his army and camped around the town. They stayed with us for some time. Many of them came to the house for water and often asked for something to eat, which we always gave if we had anything left! I got pretty well acquainted with many of them. . .(One of Patterson’s staff officers stayed with the Rutherfords-JS): a Captain Phillips asked if he could have a room at our house, so we gave him a room. The next day he brought a soldier with him and gave orders to allow no one to trespass or disturb the property. We fixed a bed for the guard in the wash house in the yard. – Rutherford, pp. 24-25.
David Hunter Strother wrote:
8_At the ruin of the old Episcopal Church – the first built in the valley – the main column halted
July 17 – Wednesday: west of Charles Town: At the ruin of the old Episcopal Church – the first built in the valley – the main column halted and detachments were sent forward to the right and left to inclose the town and capture the militia, which were reported to be assembled there. The army entered Charlestown with drums beating, colors flying, and all the pomp of a grand review. The streets were silent and deserted, the houses generally closed, and only a few negroes and children appeared to witness the “grand entree.” As the column passed, a Confederate flag was displayed from the upper window of a storehouse. The doors were instantly crushed in and the offensive emblem replaced by the Stars and Stripes. Otherwise everything was quiet. The sentiment of the army was conciliatory, while, from terror or sullen-ness, very few of the inhabitants showed themselves on the streets. – Strother, p. 156.
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4. Future Federal Major General Francis Barlow bemoans Charlestown:
9_Future Federal Major General Francis Barlow bemoans Charlestown
Federal officer Francis Channing Barlow of the 12th New York militia arrived and stayed in Charlestown in July, 1861 and did not fight at First Manassas/Bull Run:
We are encamped close to the field where they say John Brown was hung, they point out the spot where his gallows was erected. I went into the Court house where John Brown was tried this morning. This town is like all Virginia towns, . . . slovenly, with occasionally some large and pleasant looking places. Last night, we had no supper. . .(This morning) we foraged about to four or five houses for breakfast without success; they saying that they were eaten out, stolen out by those who preceeded us. They are openly Secessionists here almost entirely, the women talk openly, freely, but good humoredly. – Barlow, p. 14.
Barlow describes many men bathing in the Evetts Run near town:
10_Barlow describes many men bathing in the Evetts Run near town
(I) wiped my hands on my head, the brook which runs by our encampment being so dirtied, riled by the thousands quartered higher up that it dirties one more. . .Yet thousands of naked forms can be at this moment seen washing in it. Carlton Richards and I started for town. At the town pump in the most frequented part of town, close to the Courthouse, we took off our coats, shirts and stood entirely naked except trousers, stockings and shoes, washed and cleaned ourselves in the face of the multitude among soldiers of all climes. (Barlow to his brother Edward, from Charlestown, Va, July 18, 1861).- Barlow, p. 14.
5. A Rutherford relative teases the Federal pickets:
11_The Yankees had a patrol that marched up and down the streets every night
The Yankees had a patrol that marched up and down the streets every night. No lights were to be allowed after ten o’clock. My Aunt Nancy Douglass from St. Louis was staying with us at the time. One night the lamp was burning in her room when the patrol passed. They called. “Lights out!” So Aunt Nancy picked up the lamp and held it outside the window at them. They all laughed and told us to turn it out. “Well,” she said, “you told me: ’Lights out’ so I thought you wanted it outside.” . . . – Rutherford, p. 25.
The night of July 21st was rather exciting as the First Battle of Bull Run was fought that day. Captain Phillips told my father of their defeat at Bull Run and that the Rebs were moving on Washington. It was a desolate looking country that we looked over the next morning – the large army of troops leaving, it looked quite dilapidated. Fences were all burned and trash heaped everywhere. – Rutherford, p. 25.
Rutherford wrote that the town undertaker found the body of a local man killed at the battle, named Frank Butler, awaiting him at his business.
6. Sister Virginia recounts how the gift flag comes back to the Rutherfords:
12_Colonel Allen returned the 2nd Virginia’s Flag to Charles Town for safe keeping
October 30, 1861 – Due to confusion created by units carrying different flags after 1st Manassas the 30th October 1861 saw Governor Letcher present every Virginia regiment with a bunting flag. Colonel Allen returned the 2nd Virginia’s Flag to Charles Town for safe keeping.
13_Brigadier General Torbett of the U.S. Army was encamped
One afternoon in late 1861, Brigadier General Torbett of the U.S. Army was encamped around Charles Town with his Cavalry command. His Staff officers had pitched their tents in the beautiful grounds surrounding the Rutherford home and were lying all about on the grass. A little bare-footed colored girl came into the yard and wound her way among them, carrying a small package wrapped in a newspaper. Coming to a side door she handed the package to a member of the family saying, “Give this to Miss Ginny Rutherford”, and darted away. The Family never learned who the child was. Thomas Rutherford wrapped the flag carefully and put it under an iron hearth in the bed-room where it remained until after the close of the war. It would have been to them ample reason to the Federals for reducing the home to ashes. – Virginia Rutherford McMecham, letter 1920.
1862:
7. February 27-28, 1862 Federal General Nathaniel Banks crossed the Potomac with 30,000 men:
14_Federal General Nathaniel Banks crossed the Potomac
8. A misunderstanding about “church” music at the Charlestown Presbyterian church:
15_a hundred or more stout lungs vented the song, “John Brown’s body”
Wrote Edwin Bryant of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment:
Our sojourn in Charlestown was exceedingly disagreeable to the inhabitants. It annoyed them to have their churches occupied by Yankee soldiers; and the little organ was kept in full blast in one of the churches occupied by a part of the Third, while a hundred or more stout lungs vented the song, then new and expressive of the northern feeling: “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul is marching on.’
The boys of the regiment determined to keep that song going constantly during our stay in Charlestown; and though we staid there several days they came near keeping good the resolve. The song and the throats of the singers were rather worn-out and ragged for sometime after. It is to be feared that the organ was a little wheezy, too. – Bryant, pp. 40-41.
Federal officer David Hunter Strother (who knew the locals well) describes the minister’s grief:
16_I saw Mr. Dutton flying along the street and hailed him
I saw Mr. Dutton flying along the street and hailed him. He greeted me and said he was going to see about the occupation of his church. I went with him and found Colonel [Thomas H.] Ruger’s Wisconsin men in occupation and taking up the carpets. The preacher was for getting out the pulpit furniture, Bibles, and candelabras. Presently looking toward the organ he saw a platoon of rugged-looking fellows around the organ and fumbling with the music books of the choir. He looked in agony at the prospective destruction and desecration. A moment after, the books were all open and fifty accordant voices rose in a thrilling anthem that filled the church with solemn music. The alarmed clergyman paused a moment. His face became calm and solemn. He turned to the officer in command: “You need not move the furniture from the pulpit, Sir. It will be safe, I feel assured. . . .” (The Reverend W. B. Dutton was the Presbyterian minister at Charles Town from 1849 to 1874).
Strother, p. 5.
9. Tempers flash over stolen pigs, poultry and cows:
17_Tempers flash over stolen pigs, poultry and cows
While here, the commanders were besieged with complaints from the citizens. Their geese, turkeys and chickens disappeared. They murmured that “private property was not respected.” The orders were strict enough; and officers did not countenance their violation. But so it was, everywhere that soldiers marched a great mortality prevailed among poultry, pigs and sheep. The women were most indignant and most outspoken. They took such revenge as bitter tongues and prayers that we might be exterminated could afford them. One well-to-do farmer protested against his corn and grain being taken as he had a large number of negroes dependent on him for support. In a week he was doing his own chores, milking with his own hands his last cow, and as woe-begone a secessionist as could be found anywhere. His slaves had left him; and his stock and poultry had joined the Union side, too. – Bryant, pp. 40-41 in Charlestown with Gen. Banks; spring, 1862.
The amount of pig and chicken stealing was very considerable and all the way from the Ferry I saw soldiers with slaughtered sheep and hogs, carrying their whole quarters upon their bayonets. There was a good deal of fence burning (but) there was no wanton acts of destruction. – Strother diaries, p. 6.
10. Young Richard Rutherford had much better luck with the Rutherford’s cows thanks to food bribes:
18_We kept two cows during the war and I did the milking
He wrote: We kept two cows during the war and I did the milking. I would turn them out every day and as there were no fences left, they would get pasture all round the town. It was my job to find them in the evening and bring them home. The pickets were on Hunter’s Hill and at first refused to let me go after them, but I soon found a way to bribe them. My mother would fix up a plate of cornbread or pie or almost anything in the eating line, and armed with food and a crock of clabber, I would march up to the pickets and while they were eating I would get the cows. One of them told me to bring them some more of that feed and I could go anywhere I wanted. – Rutherford, p. 32.
We could get nothing in the way of clothing except gray cloth made by the factories in the county, so everyone dressed in gray. No one who did not actually live in or around Charlestown can realize the trying times we suffered during the four years of war. – Rutherford, p. 33.
Federal General Nathaniel Banks with a large army, takes up residence nearby:
Gen. Banks made his headquarters also at Mr. Hunter’s house and one of his staff, Captain Shriver (Captain Robert C. Shriber of the 39th New York Infantry Regiment-JS), had a room at our house. He also sent a soldier, Jack White, to guard the property. A very nice and decent fellow, so he had his meals with the family and stayed with us even after the army advance to Winchester. – Rutherford, p. 27.
11. Gen. Banks dines with Rutherfords:
On March 10, 1862 (Monday)
Gen. Banks, the day he left, sent his headquarters wagons off early in the morning, expecting to leave soon himself, but being delayed until night, my father told Captain Shriver to invite the General and his staff over to supper with us. The invitation was accepted and very much appreciated by them if judged by the way they ate and their thanks afterward. They left about nine o’clock. – Rutherford, p. 27.
In late May, 1862, General Stonewall Jackson, hoping to culminate his victorious Valley Campaign against Gen. Banks by capturing Harper’s Ferry, failed to do so and retreated back through Charlestown, with a funny incident at the Rutherford house:
12. “We don’t want him!” said the Confederates:
In late May, 1862, Federal soldier Jack White (possibly “John White,” a private in the 39th New York Infantry Regiment under Captain Robert Shriber-JS) re-visited the Rutherfords as Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was driving White’s Federal army under Gen. Banks northward out of the Valley into Maryland. White got ensnared when arriving soldiers under Jackson happened to “look in on” the Rutherford household. Jackson’s men stayed in the area briefly, then leaving upon getting orders of Federal armies forming further south.
Richard Rutherford recalled:
One morning we were all sitting at the breakfast table and suddenly heard shooting on skirmish lines getting closer and closer. Poor Jack White was about through and got up and started to go – but my father told him to finish. In a few minutes men of Jackson’s line, came around the house. Some looked in the window and called out: “Hello there, Yank!” We went to the door and my father spoke to them, telling how White had taken care of the property for some months and could have easily gotten away, but that he (father Thomas Rutherford) had made him stay for breakfast. They said at once: “We don’t want him. . .” So White got on his horse and rode away unmolested. – Rutherford, pp. 27-28.
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LE BEAU FAIT DU BIEN
Après un passage par les salles d’art contemporain des musées d’Occident, nombreuses sont les personnes qui éprouvent un véritable soulagement, et disent leur plaisir, leur sentiment de bonheur, de plénitude en revenant à l’art ancien ou à l’art moderne (1850-1950), bref aux Beaux Arts.
Un philosophe anglais actuel, Roger Scruton (Youtube) ose rappeler que le Beau est important pour l’homme.
Effectivement le Beau fait du Bien. Il n’est pas question ici de haute philosophie ni de s’interroger sur les relations, correspondances et différences entre le Beau et le Bien, le Laid et le Mal, mais d’un constat d’expérience et d’une proposition de bon sens.
C’est un fait, le Beau fait du Bien, et c’est la raison pour laquelle il faut s’inquiéter, et ne pas hésiter à protester contre un art contemporain qui impose le Laid comme critère de ses choix.
Il ne faut pas se laisser intimider par le totalitarisme d’une conception de l’art qui fait du mal à la majorité d’une population. 70% puisque les statistiques montrent que c’est le pourcentage de la population, en tout cas française, qui se désintéresse de l’art contemporain.
Il faut s’inquiéter de l’existence et de la légitimité d’une élite qui impose aux peuples d’Occident des laideurs, prône et adore sur ses modernes autels dressés dans des salles d’art contemporain immenses comme des cathédrales, ce Laid qui nous veut du mal.
Remplacer la religion du Beau par celle du Laid n’est pas innocent, c’est un projet pervers.
Et quand ce projet ajoute encore à sa nocivité le Non-Sens et l’Absurdité il faut oser dire non, cela suffit, c’est une violation de nos consciences et une atteinte à notre conception de la vie et tout simplement à notre environnement.
Ce choix des élites a des effets pervers, non seulement sur les visiteurs des musées, mais aussi ailleurs que dans nos espaces d’art contemporain, par l’exemple qu’il propose aux peuples en justifiant le laid et le non sens. Par contagion.
C’est un fait que l’art des rues, populaire et spontané, est généralement plus divers, plus imaginatif, plus beau et plus porteur de sens que l’art élitiste, officiel et dirigé des musées d’arts contemporains.
Mais c’est aussi un fait que les rues de nos villes et nos grandes voies de circulation sont le lieu d’expression d’un vandalisme du beau et du sens, d’une volonté de provocation et d’un mépris flagrant des autres. Le Non-art n’existe pas que dans les musées d’art contemporain, il est aussi très présent dans nos rues et parfaitement toléré et même encouragé dans certains quartiers. Pas les "beaux quartiers" bien sûr, qui sont protégés. Ce non-art des rues emprunte beaucoup à l’exemple donné par le non-art des élites.
Le poisson commence de pourrir par la tête, mais le poisson finit par pourrir tout entier.
THE BEAUTIFUL FACT OF GOOD
After a passage through the contemporary art galleries of the museums of the Occident, many people are experiencing real relief, and say their pleasure, their feeling of happiness, plenitude by returning to ancient art or to Modern Art (1850-1950), in brief at the Fine Arts.
A current English philosopher, Roger Scruton (Youtube) dares to recall that the Beautiful is important for humans.
Indeed the Beautiful makes good. The point is not highly philosophical. It is not a question of interrogate the relations, correspondences and differences between the Beautiful and the Good, the Ugly and the Evil, but to note and recall a fact of experience and a proposition of common sense.
It is a fact, the beautiful makes us feel good, and this is the reason why one has to worry and not hesitate to protest against a contemporary art which imposes the ugly as criterion of its choices.
One should not be intimidated by the totalitarianism of a conception of art which hurts the majority of a population. 70% since the statistics show that it is the percentage of the population, in any case French, that is not interested in contemporary art.
We must worry about the existence and the legitimacy of an elite that imposes upon the peoples of the West the ugliness, preaches and adores on its modern altars erected in contemporary art rooms vast like cathedrals, this ugly one who wants us of evil.
Replace the religion of the Beautiful with that of the ugly is not innocent, it is a perverse project.
And when this project adds to its harmfulness the Non-Sense and the Absurdity, one must dare to say no, it is enough, it is a violation of our consciences and an attack on our conception of the life and simply to our environment.
This choice of elites has perverse effects, not only on visitors to museums, but also elsewhere than in our contemporary art spaces, by the example he proposes to the people by justifying the ugly and nonsense. By contagion
It is a fact that the art of the streets, popular and spontaneous, is generally more diverse, more imaginative, more beautiful and more meaningful than the elitist, official and directed art of contemporary art museums.
But it is also a fact that the streets of our cities and our great roads are the place of expression of a vandalism of beauty and meaning, a will to provoke and a blatant disregard for others. Non-art does not exist only in museums of contemporary art, it is also very present in our streets and perfectly tolerated and even encouraged in certain neighborhoods. Not the "uptown" of course, which are protected. This non-art of the street art borrows much from the example given by the non-art of the elites.
The fish begin to rot by the head, but the fish ends up rotting whole.
Noah “Bud” Ogle Place – House (view B)
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The Noah "Bud" Ogle Place was a homestead located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, TN. The homestead presently consists of a cabin, barn, and tub mill built by mountain farmer Noah "Bud" Ogle (1863–1913) in the late 19th century. In 1977, the homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places and is currently maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The surviving structures at the Noah Ogle Place are characteristic of a typical 19th-century Southern Appalachian mountain farm. Ogle’s cabin is a type known as a "saddlebag" cabin (two single-pen cabins joined by a common chimney), which was a relatively rare design in the region. Ogle’s barn is an excellent example of a four-pen barn, a design once common in the area, although this barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. Ogle’s tub mill is the park’s last surviving operational tub mill and one of the few operational tub mills in the region. A later owner of the Ogle farm renamed the farm "Junglebrook," and the farm is thus sometimes referred to as the "Junglebrook Historic District."
The Noah Ogle Place is situated near LeConte Creek (formerly known as Mill Creek) in the upper drainage of the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River. Gatlinburg lies opposite the park boundary to the north, Roaring Fork lies opposite the hills to the east, the Sugarlands lies opposite the hills to the west, and Mount Le Conte rises to the south. Cherokee Orchard Road (still occasionally referred to as Airport Road) connects the Noah Ogle Place to U.S. Route 441 in downtown Gatlinburg to the north and to the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail to the south. The site’s tub mill is situated on the banks of LeConte Creek, approximately 0.5 miles from the cabin and barn.
Noah Ogle’s great-grandparents, William Ogle (1756–1803) and his wife Martha Huskey (1756–1826), were the first Euro-American settlers in the Gatlinburg area, arriving in the early 19th century (their cabin still stands in downtown Gatlinburg). The Ogles’ descendants quickly spread out into the adjacent river and creek valleys. Noah Ogle’s farm originally consisted of 400 acres, although by the early 20th century he had subdivided his land among his children, and retained only 150 acres. These last 150 acres comprise the bulk of the Bud Ogle Farm historic district.
Ogle’s cabin and outbuildings were built in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The land was poor and rocky (the National Park Service later claimed it was "unsuitable" for farming), and Ogle mostly grew corn. The land did include a sizeable apple orchard which grew multiple types of apples. Ogle’s relatives were allowed free use of his tub mill, while others were charged a small percentage of meal. Excess corn and apples were shipped to markets in Knoxville. Ogle’s wife, Lucinda Bradley Ogle, was a local midwife.
In the 1920s, several investors established a 796-acre (322 ha) commercial apple orchard and ornamental nursery known as "Cherokee Orchard" just south of the Ogle homestead. When the Tennessee Park Commission began buying up property for the creation of the national park in the late 1920s, the owners of Cherokee Orchard threatened to fight a major appropriations for bill for the park’s funding if their land was condemned. The orchard’s owners dropped their opposition in 1931 in exchange for a long lease on the property.
Noah Ogle cabin
The Noah Ogle cabin consists of two cabins sharing a single chimney, known as a "saddlebag" cabin. The cabins were built approximately five years apart, the second cabin being added as Ogle’s family grew. Both cabins measure 18 feet by 20 feet, and each consists of one story and a loft. The cabin’s walls consist of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches, with six doors (one on the front and back wall of each cabin, and two next to the chimney to allow quick passage between the two buildings). Each cabin has a split-oak shingled roof, a sawn board floor, and hearths made of rubble. The cabin’s windows were initially shuttered, but eventually replaced with glass. One cabin has a small window near the floor that allowed chickens to enter to escape predators. A covered porch spans both the front and back walls of both cabins.
Ogle barn
The Ogle barn is the last remaining four-pen barn in the park. It consists of four 11-square-foot pens, each one story with a loft, covered by a split-shingled roof. Like the cabin, the barn’s walls are constructed of hewn logs connected by half-dovetail notches. The park service made numerous repairs to the barn in the 1960s.
