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backcountry notes blog backcountry notes blog blog site for backcountry notes about this blog backcountry notes blog is a companion site to my home web site backcountry notes it is intended at present to roughly parallel the front page of backcountry notes and its purpose is to permit better tracking and access for those who prefer blogger i am working through the differences in formats as i go took me a while to get pictures to display properly or at all so forgive the occasional mess comments and helpful suggestion are welcome subscribe to posts atom posts all comments atom all comments blog archive 2009 11 august 3 virginia highlands festival scenes part one recalling the log cabins of the southern piedmont vintage log cabin joinery july 8 my blog list whynot pottery blog spring kiln opening 2025 1 year ago in short blurghhh 13 years ago potters for the north carolina pottery center nc art pottery orange red glazes chrome uranium a touch of gold dust perhaps 15 years ago backcountry notes front page backcountry bloglist codes arts crafts a folklore f history h music m outdoors o photography p appalachian history h f appalachian independent f appalachian patria appalachian treks p backcountry notes h f blind pig the acorn f m blog asheville blue mountain music m blue ridge blog p blue ridge blue collar girl p blue ridge muse dark chocolate red wine p o follow the quilt trail a fragments from floyd heritage alliance h hillbilly white trash holler notes just another day in roanoke northeast tennessee waterfalls p o old virginia blog h poetry and ruminations a rose bowen m ruminations of a country girl m the southern highland reader southern mountain melodies m vanished places of the southern appalachians h wythe notes a about me jay henderson richlands virginia united states i am an ex urbanite who escaped the city life and has lived for the past 28 years in a rural mountainous area of virginia that in colonial and early american times was part of the backcountry this is the true melting pot of the u s a its culture and traditions dominated by born fighting scotch irish immigrants and enhanced by german highland scot dutch welsh and yeoman english settlers having absorbed and inculcated the history values and views of the backcountry i would like to share insights information and viewpoints from the place where america began view my complete profile followers sunday august 2 2009 virginia highlands festival scenes part one the annual virginia highlands festival is held in abingdon virginia which provides a nice setting among the old buildings in downtown abingdon part of the festival is an antiques bourse which is housed in two huge tents on the grounds of the community college these pictures were taken at the antiques show next installment the arts crafts show downtown you can click on any picture to bring up a larger version more images here posted by jay henderson at 3 13 pm no comments labels abingdon highlands festival virginia recalling the log cabins of the southern piedmont the following is from my friend tom evans a distant kinsman through clan gunn who hails from the virginia piedmont my father sixth of the seven children of his family was born in july 1919 in a one room log cabin on a rented farm near wentworth in rockingham county north carolina a later owner of this land burned the cabin in the late 1960s to get rid of that nuisance it had stored farm tools for more than 30 observed years before it was burned and probably since the evans family moved out of it continue reading here posted by jay henderson at 3 08 pm no comments labels early american history log building log cabin piedmont pioneer houses vintage log cabin joinery log cabin construction requires some sort of notching at the ends of the logs where they are to be stacked to form the corner joints of the crib the scotch irish immigrants learned the craft of log construction from settlers who brought the techniques with them from sweden and finland the nordic cabin builders used two very similar methods the simpler method is the saddle joint which needed few tools and but a little practice the more complex method fully scribed saddle joints required more tools and greater skill and was not used in the backcountry fully scribed saddle joints bring the logs into full length contact eliminating the need for chinking saddle notches could be cut with only an axe a mallet and a chisel this greatly reduced the need to carry tools into the wilderness which had great appeal to the scotch irish who were moving rapidly into the backcountry in the 18th century continue reading here posted by jay henderson at 3 04 pm no comments labels backcountry cabins log building log cabin pioneer houses saturday july 25 2009 map of cumberland and franklin i have had the good fortune to find a digital version of ramsey s map of cumberland and franklin published in 1853 the map depicts tennessee during the time of settlement when it was the frontier of the backcountry it shows the road named robertson s route leading southwest from the wilderness road from virginia to central kentucky into middle tennessee two areas of settlement are illustrated northeast tennessee lying between the great smokies and the cumberland mountains and upper middle tennessee accessed by way of robertson s route in between these areas there was no settlement in early tennessee history continue reading here posted by jay henderson at 2 54 pm no comments labels cumberland early american history franklin map tennessee thursday july 23 2009 vintage conestoga wagon picture while looking around the web for old pictures i ran across this shot of a conestoga wagon with a team hitched up click on the image to see a larger view this picture demonstrates several features of the conestoga wagon it clearly shows the swaybacked shape of the wagon which has a floor that has a slight curve with its lowest point in the center this shape helped to ensure that if the rigors of colonial era roads jarred the cargo it would tend to slide towards the center of the wagon maintaining balance note also that there is no seat on the wagon the driver is mounted on one of the horses there is a passenger seated on the side of the wagon between the wheels the term conestoga is sometimes used incorrectly to describe the covered wagons or prairie schooners used to traverse the great plains as the nation moved west while some conestogas went west most of the prairie schooners were less expensive flat bottomed wagons which usually had seating built into the front of the wagon the craft pictured below is a flat bottomed covered wagon not a conestoga note the variety of transportation animals in this picture the wagon is drawn by a mule and two oxen and to the left is a rider on a burro posted by jay henderson at 2 46 pm no comments labels conestoga wagon saturday july 18 2009 log houses of abingdon virginia the town of abingdon in washington county virginia grew up around an early settlement called wolf hill in the early backcountry abingdon was a crossroads with settlers and traders coming down the great road and moving by the same road to tennessee or by the wilderness road to kentucky some of the log cabins built during those early times have survived and several are now now located within the abingdon town limits the style of log cabin building found in washington county differs from that ordinarily found in the log structures of tazewell county many of which are preserved at the crab orchard museum washington county cabins were built with rafter roof systems rather than purlins and the builders used rough cut limestone for chimneys and foundations both indicating a greater availability of skilled carpenters and masons continue reading here posted by jay henderson at 2 36 pm no comments labels abingdon backcountry cabins colonial american history log building log cabin pioneer houses virginia friday july 10 2009 1929 sunset mountain pottery ad a collector friend from north carolina peg wiebe sent me this reproduction of an advertisement for sunset mountain pottery which was published in july 1929 sunset mountain pottery was made by j b cole s pottery and sold by a business named the treasure chest in asheville nc the dates generally given for this arrangement are 1929 1935 so this ad is very likely the first for sunset mountain pottery this is how the advertisement describes the wares the gorgeous autumnal colorings of this quaint hand turned pottery from the hill country of carolina makes it readily adaptable to home decoration the cool dark green or the warm sunset tones blend charmingly with late summer and early autumn flowers several of the pieces shown will also make delightful lamp bases all shapes are available in two colors orange reds with darker markings and dark green with darker markings please specify color when ordering the glaze described as orange reds with darker markings must have been the chrome red glaze which was very popular during the depression years and remains a favorite of modern collectors the dark green with darker markings may be the same as the green and black glaze described in the 1932 cole pottery catalog many more shapes and colors were added to the sunset mountain pottery line over the years the treasure chest and another mountain crafts business log cabin were combined and incorporated in 1932 as three mountaineers inc the business eventually came to focus on wooden furniture and other wooden articles the sunset mountain pottery line was discontinued in 1935 posted by jay henderson at 2 25 pm no comments labels art pottery cole pottery north carolina pottery older posts home subscribe to posts atom