I have figured out that I find things interesting that other people couldn’t care less about. I get totally engrossed in the AOL headlines about ancient bones being dug up, some random unknown animal being washed up by a storm, or a refrigerator set to hit earth (and AOL never followed up with where it hit, and I’m not happy about that). I was looking up things about Gatlinburg and ran across the Ogle Cabin. Yeah, I’m no stranger to Gatlinburg but somehow I never managed to connect that the Ogle Cabin was the first cabin in all of Gatlinburg.
The Ogle’s are basically the first people to build a cabin in Gatlinburg, TN. William Ogle started to build the cabin on White Oak Flats (present day Gatlinburg). He returned to his home to gather his wife and children and bring them back to the cabin and to help finish it up. He died before they made it back though due to malaria. His wife, Martha, packed their family up and headed to this cabin her husband was building by the directions he had told her. That amazes me for whatever reason. Mainly because I would have NEVER been able to go by directions without the assistance of a navigation system or MapQuest. She, along with her 7 children, and her brothers family, finished building the log cabin and lived there the rest of their lives. I am amazed!
Anyways, the Ogle Cabin was the first log cabin to be built in Gatlinburg, TN in 1807. I thought about how much has changed in the 201 years since then. The Ogle’s lived off the land and now if we didn’t have Wal-Mart I’m not sure we’d be able to survive. I’m still in amazement that Martha found the cabin she had NEVER been to just by her husband’s directions. She must have had extremely good listening skills and an amazing sense of direction. I get lost in my hometown (yeah, don’t repeat that to anyone).
I just felt like sharing that because I’m still amused with it…. And if anyone knows where that refrigerator landed PLEASE let me know.
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