Small House History

Some of the older homes around me here in Western North Carolina have a Little House on their land. When people first bought the land, they built a Little House to live in while they built their house. Later, when their kids get married, they …

This is the Noah “Bud” Ogle Cabin, near Gatlinburg Tennessee on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail. It is actually two cabins with a shared chimney, called a Saddlebag Cabin, like a saddlebag that goes over a horse. (The reconstructed Abraham Lincoln cabin at Lincoln …