Perry's Camp preceded the founding of the adjacent Great Smoky Mountains National Park by six years.

A hollowed-out log covered with glass and filled with water and fish served as a bar in the restaurant.

[1] In 1950, following the settlement of the estate, Sevierville businessman Cliff Davis purchased the property and operated it for a couple of years, converting the restaurant into a gift shop.

Prompted by the ever-increasing tourist traffic to the national park, US 441 was improved and widened in the late 1950s, taking with it the restaurant building, the dam, the swinging bridge, and the six cabins nearest the river.

Perry's camp was one of the first tourist sites in East Tennessee and one of very few which has retained much of its construction originality in the four cabins and log house which still exist.

The site is now named Flat Branch Cottages, and three of the four cabins are still rented to tourists April through October.