The People of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Although today, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an uninhabited wilderness, when the land was being purchased in the 1920s and 1930s, there were people who lived and worked in the area. Evidence of their presence can be found in bald mountains used to graze cattle, and cabins like this one, in Cades Cove. Some of the inhabitants lived in the park until the 1960s.