Raw States

Elkmont, the ghost cottages and the synchronous fireflies

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Sevier County, Tennessee · 1908

Elkmont, the ghost cottages and the synchronous fireflies

A logging camp that became a summer colony of Appalachian Club cottages, then a ghost of one when the leases ran out and the Park Service let the buildings rot. Some have been restored, some deliberately left as ruins.

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