According to the National Park Service Cades Cove has been preserved by the Great Smoky Mountain National Park to look much the way it looked in the 1800's. Once home to a small mountain community, whose settlers came from mainly from Virginia, North Carolina and upper east Tennessee, Cades Cove is today the largest open air museum in the entire Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

Cades Cove

John Oliver Cabin John Oliver Cabin Sarah in Front of the cabin Baptist Church - Organized June 16, 1827