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A replica of a traditional Native American wattle and daub house from the Southeastern United States near Cumberland Gap National Park, on the border of Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

The hut consists of a thatched roof hut, supported with a wooden posts in a circular configuration. The walls of the hut employ the wattle and daub construction technique. A woven lattice of wooden strips called “wattle” is combined with a plastering technique known as “daub” that is applied to the wooden lattice and includes a combination of wet soil, clay, sand, straw and animal dung. Wattle and daub is a construction technique that dates back more than 6,000 years, can be found in many places throughout the world, and remains in use today in different regions.

This particular hut has a single doorway with no windows, but an up roof that allows the smoke and heat from cooking fires to escape.

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A replica vintage kitchen in a log cabin home, with a cast iron wood burning cook stove, dishes, earthenware, and wooden cabinets and furniture. Located in rural Tennessee, in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, the log home is part of the 1850s Homeplace Working Farm. The farm paints a portrait of pioneer farm life in rural western Tennessee and Kentucky, in the 1800’s.

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A reproduction of McHargue’s Mill in Levi Jackson Wilderness Road Park, located in London, Kentucky. The reproduction was built by the Civilian Conservation Corp in 1939 on the banks of the Little Laurel River.

The historic Wilderness Road (and Boone Trace), pioneered by Daniel Boone were the main southern routes used by settlers moving west through the American frontier, from Virginia to Kentucky beginning in 1775. The early route was steep and difficult to traverse, making it only accessible on foot and by horseback, but eventually the trail was improved and extended to reach Louisville, Kentucky on the Ohio River. The route is sometimes called the Cumberland Route because it traversed the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains.

The park is named after Levi Jackson, a prominent settler, whose family moved to Kentucky from Tennessee in 1825. The land on which the park is built was farmed and owned by Levi Jackson and his descendants until 1931, when the land was donated to the state of Kentucky.

A number of buildings in the park, including the mill were built during the Great Depression, by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and funding from the National Park Service.

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