Walker Sister's Cabin

Local nameWalker Sister's Cabin
LocationWalker Sisters Place

The Walker Sisters Place was a homestead in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The surviving structures—which include the cabin, springhouse, and corn crib—were once part of a farm that belonged to the Walker sisters—five sisters who became local legends because of their adherence to traditional ways of living. The sisters inherited the farm from their father, and after the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was formed in the 1930s, they obtained a lifetime lease. The National Park Service gained control of the property in 1964 when the last Walker sister died. The surviving structures were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Former Great Smoky Mountains National Park historian Paul Gordon writes, "of all the people who once lived in what is now Great Smoky Mountains National Park, none exhibited better the character of the mountain people than the Walker family." While part of the Walker Cabin was built in the 1840s by…

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Sisters_Place

Address Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 37862, United States

Coordinates 35°41'38.126" N -83°37'48.517" E

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