Like Cades Cove, the park service has maintained several of the buildings that formed this small community. We stopped at one of the homes, the Palmer House. The yellow building was the house proper, and the smaller white structure was built around 1924 to house a small dining area and kitchen operation that fed people who camped or stayed in the Palmer’s bunkhouse while fishing.
Visitors are free to walk both around and inside of the building. This photo is of one of the interior rooms of the main house. The main house is a two story structure. The kitchen building now houses a small museum of life in the Cataloochee community.
This is the floor covering in another room of the main house. It appeared to be something like wallpaper.
Big Cataloochee had only one church, Palmer Chapel, built in 1898. Services were held in this Methodist Church about once a month, when a circuit riding minister visited Cataloochee. Although, Sunday school was a weekly occurrence. Each year a reunion is held here, where friends and family of those who once lived in the valley gather to care for the cemeteries, and share a dinner at the church.
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Very nice sir! Looks like it was beautiful up there. Is that all the photos of the interior of that building?
It was a gorgeous day! I only took one other photo of the Palmer House interior. All the rooms looked about the same. The ceilings were very low. I couldn’t stand up straight in certain parts of the house, but you would have no problem.
We just returned from the same trip,my famimly and I spent Christmas in Maggie Valley, it was fantastic.