Lora Blevins Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory park report, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, National Park Service
Hasty D and Goetcheus C. 2010. Lora Blevins Farmstead: Cultural Landscape Inventory park report, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 550006. NPS Southeast Regional Office. Southeast Regional Office/CLI Database
The Lora Blevins Farmstead is a 36.20 acre landscape located on Old Leatherwood Ford Road in Scott County, Tennessee. The farmstead contains many extant features typical of a Cumberland Farmstead in the Big South Fork region, including: remnant fields and fence lines; remnant orchards; structures, including a log barn, log corn crib, log house, privy, shed and animal pen; and a cemetery. The period of significance for the site begins in 1929 with the construction of the log barn, log corn crib, and log house by Lora Blevins. The period of significance ends in 1974 with the establishment of the park. The farmstead is currently in fair condition. The Lora Blevins Farmstead is typical of the settlement patterns found throughout the Big South Fork plateau in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A number of historical landscape features still exist at the site, including fields, fruit and nut trees, hedgerows, road traces, fences, foundations, an animal pen, and a cemetery. The Lora Blevins Farmstead is part of the proposed Big South Fork Rural Historic District. The Big South Fork Rural Historic District is significant at the state level for its association with the early settlement, agriculture and rural community life, and economy of the Upper Cumberland region in Tennessee; for its many examples of vernacular folk architecture once typical of the region; and for its potential to yield information important to understanding the historic human occupation of the area. The diverse resources of the district are united historically and physically by their association with farming activity and rural life in the Upper Cumberland from 1821‑1950. The district’s discontigous pattern of historic rural landscapes separated by portions of undeveloped land vividly illustrates the intimate relationship that existed between the family farmers of the Upper Cumberland and the rugged terrain on which they lived.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hasty, David; Goetcheus, Cari
- Date of Issue
- 2010-08-05
- Publisher
- NPS Southeast Regional Office
- Units
- BISO , SER
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Archeology, Barn, cemetery, Clara Sue Blevins Farmstead, Exploration, farm, Farming Communities, Funerary, hiking trail, Historic Vernacular Landscape, Industry, Landscape architecture, Log Construction, Lumber, Mining, plantation, Railroads, Scott County, Settlement, Social History, Tennessee, Timber, Transportation, Vernacular architecture