On our walk in the Smokey Mountains we came upon the cabin of Elyah Oliver. The best part was behind the cabin about 200 feet , right in the valley where a small creek came through. I am not sure what it would be called but it was built to gather and store water from the creek.
There are pipes made out of wood that carry the water to and from the building. You can get an idea of how old they are by the amount of moss growing on them.
There are pipes made out of wood that carry the water to and from the building. You can get an idea of how old they are by the amount of moss growing on them.
Even the trough was hand carve from a large piece of wood.
The creek was nothing more that a little bit of wet mud. By putting these wood pipes up the hill right where the water had to flow over some rock there were able to gather and store water. The building is set up to keep animals from it and also to provide some protection.
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