In the lot adjoining the Morganton-Jackson Ferry Road there was another  older log barn, crib type, which was the original barn.  This barn was about the same size as the horse barn above but had a shed or passageway all along the southwest side parallel to the Morganton- Jackson Ferry Road. Hay was placed in the barn from this shed.  The center floor of the barn contained a threshing floor made of wide 24" x 5 ft. x 1-1/2" boards with 1" to 1-1/2" holes bored in the floor. This area covered a sizable area, say 20 by 20 feet.  In threshing, the wheat or cats were spread over the floor and a horse or horses were walked over the sheaves, breaking the grain from the husks which sifted through the holes in the boards where it was caught on cloths spread for this purpose.  When the weather was satisfactorily windy, this grain was winnowed, i.e. tossed into the air and the wind carried the husks away from the grain.

There was a large log crib adjoining or hard by this barn.  Sheep were keep in sheds of this barn in the winter.  There was a hog lot on the spring branch between these two barns.  On south and across the road was a blacksmith shop, vice, forge (bellows type that was pumped up and down with a long handle), anvil, tongs, and a mold
for making square nails.  A buggy and surrey and harness shed stood nearby.  Across the branch was the granary  made of yellow poplar covered with split boards at that time. 

Up near the Brick house, east and back of the garden near the big maple tree, was another log crib barn.  This was the cow barn with a central passage, a hay loft and four stalls.

All the area from the spring house, where the butter and milk were kept, down to the road leading up to the house and from the spring branch up to a fence just above the cow barn and back to the woods to the east was an apple orchard. The family grew many varieties so as to have fruit for all seasons and purposes - cooking, cider, drying, storage, spring, summer, fall. There was a cider mill shed just below the spring where the apples were brought and washed and made into cider.  Here some of the cider was made into apple butter.  The cider was placed in a large brass kettle, where someone with a long wooden stirring paddle kept the juice stirred and the fire going under the kettle until the apple butter was of the right consistency. Then this delectable spread was placed in crocks, sealed and stored in the large pantry in the large kitchen just back of the dining room of the brick house.

Not far from the cider shed was a place where hogs and sheep were butchered for home consumption. 

Back of the garden was a wedge shaped wooden hopper about 4 ft high and 3 ft. long and three feet open at the top.  In this hopper wood ashes were placed and lye was leached as needed for soap making.

The smoke house just to the north of the brick house was where the meat was cured and stored.  Large hollow poplar trees had been split in half and here the hams, shoulders and side meat were placed and salted; later the meat was removed and the pepper, black and red, and sugar cure were added and the meat packed and hung in the smoke house.

The shed in front of the smoke house was where "Aunt" Crease Henley would do the washing or make lye soap.  She was daughter of a slave and would at times comment on her prominent white relatives in Knox County.  I remember also that Aunt May's large assortment of oil art colors in tubes, along with other accessories, came to rest in this area.  An old Indian blow gun (hollow cane about six feet long) was stuck up in the rafters for a long time.  I remember Kimmel, the colored boy who helped with my rheumatic grandfather and Spence, the colored man who came and cooked on special occasions.

On the road to the peach orchard, back in the high knobs just beyond the bluegrass fields, were two log cabins that had been built and occupied by Cherokee Indians.  The cabins were of round logs, notched at corners, one had a stick and mud chimney and the other a rock and mud chimney. They had dirt floors, split board roofs, and logs chinked with knob mud.  Each cabin had one door swung on wooden hinges.  A cleared area of about four or five acres served for growing corn, potatoes, pumpkins, etc.  These cabins were in a good state of preservation until about 1915.  I like to think that probably or just possibly these Indians remained and were protected from the Trail of Tears.  I have heard the older Hughes' say that they were on friendly terms and traded coin and pork for hand-made baskets, etc.  The Indians who lived here visited with Indians living in Cades Cove.