Tipton Place, Cades Cove

Tipton Place, Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains.  The story behind the image:  The Tipton Place is also called the Tipton-Oliver Place. The National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory provides the following history of the Tipton family and their farmstead: "The Cades Cove Tiptons have a long history in East Tennessee and played a significant role in the early history of the state. Colonel John Tipton, a Revolutionary War veteran, brought his family from Virginia to East Tennessee, near Jonesboro, in 1782. A son, William Tipton, also a Revolutionary War veteran, moved into Blount County, settling on Little River near what is now Lakemont. In 1821, he was issued a Tennessee grant for 640 acres in the eastern end of Cades Cove. Although William Tipton never lived in the cove, this was the first recorded legal land title for Cades Cove following the Calhoun Treaty of 1819. Other grants followed until he had ownership of most of the valley floor, which he began to sell to fri