Tipton Place, Cades Cove

Tipton Place, Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains. 

The story behind the image: 

The Tipton Place is also called the Tipton-Oliver Place. The National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory provides the following history of the Tipton family and their farmstead:

"The Cades Cove Tiptons have a long history in East Tennessee and played a significant role in the early history of the state. Colonel John Tipton, a Revolutionary War veteran, brought his family from Virginia to East Tennessee, near Jonesboro, in 1782. A son, William Tipton, also a Revolutionary War veteran, moved into Blount County, settling on Little River near what is now Lakemont. In 1821, he was issued a Tennessee grant for 640 acres in the eastern end of Cades Cove. Although William Tipton never lived in the cove, this was the first recorded legal land title for Cades Cove following the Calhoun Treaty of 1819. Other grants followed until he had ownership of most of the valley floor, which he began to sell to friends and relatives from counties in upper East Tennessee. The Cades Cove Tiptons descended from his two sons, Jacob T. and Jonathan R. Tipton. Jacob Tipton bought land from his father in 1824 but moved his entire family to Missouri in the 1840s. There is no record that Jonathan R. Tipton ever lived in Cades Cove, but his son, Col. J. W. H. Tipton, bought land in the cove in 1869 and built the Tipton-Oliver farmstead. In 1878, James McCaulley, a blacksmith, and his family began renting the house. They lived there for several years until they built their own house. In 1895, J. W. H. Tipton died, and his estate sold to Rev. William H. Oliver. The Oliver family resided there until 1931, when the land was acquired for the park." [Reference: “National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory 1998”, http://npshistory.com/publications/grsm/tipton-oliver-homestead-cli.pdf (accessed June 20, 2023).]

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