There are many partially restored pioneer-era residences and farms in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One of the most easily accessible is the Noah "Bud" Ogle place, just outside downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Located off Cherokee Orchard Road just before the entrance to the popular Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, the Ogle farm offers a guided nature trail crossing the main grounds of the old farm, meandering through woodlands, and passing by a babbling mountain creek with its "tub" mill, which once harnessed water power to grind corn for the Ogles and their neighbors who didn't own a mill of their own. The Ogle family was one of the first to settle in the community of White Oak Flats, now known as Gatlinburg. Noah "Bud" Ogle was a descendant of these early pioneers, starting out on this 400-acre farm in the late 1870s. The house depicted in this photograph was actually the second home Ogle and his family constructed, and like many pioneer residences, it grew in size from necessity as the family expanded. Though it appears to be a mere graveled path, the walkway passing in front of the house is actually a remnant of the old road from Gatlinburg that connected owners of outlying farms to the goods available only in town. Even today, years since this was a functioning farm, it is apparent that little ground was wasted on frivolities; mountain families had little use for lawns, for example, preferring to commit valuable land to much more productive purposes, such as a vegetable garden or fruit trees.