Our friend Jill drove up to spend much of the day with us Sunday and enjoy a picnic together. We also walked back to Historic Elkmont. The homes here were mostly built between 1900 and 1920. You had to be a member of the Appalachian Club to live here. Several fo the homes were “set off” houses. The railroad would bring a house on a flatbed car and set it off with a crane for the workers. When the timbering moved from Elkmont, most. of the houses and the rr track moved to Tremont. But a few were placed for the use of the club members, the elite of Knoxville. They were occupied until about 1952 when the park bought them with a 20 year lease for those residents who wanted to stay. IN 1972 it was extended 20 years if the electrified the homes and two residents were granted additional time so the last of them ceased as summer cottages in 2002. The twelve or so buildings are along a single street where the train ran and they included the 1935 Clubhouse.
The oldest house, an 1830 cabin where the Trenthams raised 10 children.
Big wide porches seem to be on most of them
The Clubhouse, you can rent it for events still.