Millions Have Seen Rock City Have You?

   One of the famous "See Rock City" barns, this one is along Interstate 40 at Buttermilk rd in Roane County, Tennessee.

Quick Trip down the Bristol-Memphis Highway

  A week or so ago, we took a "quick" trip to Sevierville to pick up Mom for something-er-other. I put "quick" in quotation marks because "quick" would mean the 3 hour ride along Interstate 40. But we actually had most of Sunday so we took Highway 70, the old Bristol-Memphis Highway, roughly from

Along Kentucky Back Roads

Broadbent B&B Foods factory building near Cadiz. Reported to have been built in the 1940s by World War II Austrian prisoners of war from a nearby camp. Unique architecture. The company recently moved and the building is empty.

More from Kentucky after the jump...

Hidden Barn

Local barn slowly being covered by nature

Morning Barn

The Barn

Thursday's in the Barn

Thursday doesn't have a connection to barns, that I know of, but I it was the only day left when I was setting up subjects with days. I'm going with it.

This little barn has a lot to say. "See Rock City" barns have been seen all over the South since the 1930s, not long after the Rock City Gardens opened near Chattanooga, Tennessee. This one is located south of Eagleville, Tennessee on Hwy 41. This photo was taken in 2003.

Thursday's in the Barn

Thursday doesn't have a connection to barns, that I know of, but I it was the only day left when I was setting up subjects with days. I'm going with it.

This barn is located in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. I believe this is the one at the Dan Lawson home place. Lawson died in 1905 and was buried in a small graveyard on a hilltop nearby.