Noah Ogle Place

The Noah "Bud" Ogle Place was a homestead located in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

The homestead presently consists of a cabin, barn, and tub mill built by mountain farmer Noah "Bud" Ogle (1863–1913) in the late 19th century.

[1] The surviving structures at the Noah Ogle Place are characteristic of a typical 19th-century Southern Appalachian mountain farm.

The site's tub mill is situated on the banks of LeConte Creek, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) from the cabin and barn.

Noah Ogle's great-grandparents, William Ogle (1756–1803) and his wife Martha Huskey (1756–1826), were the first Euro-American settlers in the Gatlinburg area, arriving in the early 19th century (their cabin still stands on the Arrowmont School campus in downtown Gatlinburg).

The land was poor and rocky (the National Park Service later claimed it was "unsuitable" for farming), and Ogle mostly grew corn.

Ogle's relatives were allowed free use of his tub mill, while others were charged a small percentage of meal.

Each cabin has a split-oak shingled roof, a sawn board floor, and hearths made of rubble.

The millhouse is an 11-foot (3.4 m) by 11-foot (3.4 m) building resting on mudsills and round log supports above LeConte Creek, about a half-mile from Ogle cabin and barn.

Ogle barn
Ogle tub mill, viewed from LeConte Creek