Monochrome Monday: Mountain Farm Museum

The Mountain Farm Museum, adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee, NC, is a unique collection of farm buildings assembled from locations throughout the area. Most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. This was one of the stops on my October Appalachian fall foliage expedition.

Mountain Farm Museum Barn Landscape Composition

Visitors can explore a log farmhouse, barn, apple house, springhouse, and a working blacksmith shop to get a sense of how families may have lived 100 years ago. The Davis House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. I found the site to be a monochrome photography goldmine!

Mountain Farm Museum Woodshed Composition 1

Mountain Farm Museum Woodshed Detail 1

Mountain Farm Museum Davis House Composition Vignette 1

Antique Hay Rake Composition 1

Mountain Farm Museum Barn Vignette 1

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Cheers,

C. S.