Carter Shields Cabin

Great Smoky Mountains National Park


The last cabin on the loop road is arguably the most photogenic, tucked in a small grassy glade surrounded by the woods. Carter Shields, a Civil War veteran wounded in the Battle of Shiloh, lived here for 11 years in the early 1900s.


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