Appalachia Story of Cades Cove Cable Grist Mill in the Great Smoky Mountains
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2022
- Story of the 1867 Cable Grist Mill in Cades Cove of the Great Smoky Mountains. There is said to have been 7 Grist Mills in the Cove, but this is the only one still standing. A look at the history of it and how it works. Thanks for watching. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
I want to give a big shout out, and a thank you, to Donnie Laws, who is running one of the best RUclips channels on the entire platform. Thank you, brother!
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That's awesome my friend. Thank you. God bless you.
Great job as always Donnie!
Thank you friend.
I will agree with on that this is the best channel
I second the thank you for all the important history you're giving us. Preserving these old ways is so important & so precious to our nation. We enjoy the relaxing nature videos too. All of it. 🐿👏👏👏🦃🐾🦌🦨🍂🙏🇺🇲🥰
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Amazing how they harnessed the creek there to work for them.The Old Mill has withstood the test of time,and still putting cornbread on the table. Thanks Friend for another good one 🙂.
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Fantastic educational video today! Thank you sir for recording this history.
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I have visited this place many many times ... Got me a bag of cornmeal from there several times.... Such a wonderful experience.... I remember as a young girl helping my daddy with his grist mill.... He Wld make cornmeal for a lot of people
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What a wonderful job you did on the grist mill story. Had the pleasure of visiting Cades Cove years ago and just did't want to leave. It is so peaceful and beautiful. How sad that our daily life seems to be so busy that we can't enjoy the beauty God has given us. Have a wonderful day and good luck on your hunting trip.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you. God bless you and keep you my friend.
That is great seeing that old grist mill in action,thank you.
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The sights of days gone past but still here makes you admire the old style of engineering that makes you wonder if we went in the right direction where we is today
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Truly a beautiful place..thank you so much for taking us back to a simpler time.😁🇺🇸🍁👍
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Your like the grandfather alot of us never had. Thank you so much !
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Hi Donnie! I really enjoyed watching this video. It really is interesting, the history behind the mill. I've never been to East Tennessee, however, after watching your channel for some time now, I want to come and visit real bad. Thank you for all your hard work on showing us the beauty, the critters and the history from the mountains. God Bless and much love from Ohio.. 🙏🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Thank you. God bless.
Good to see the ol Cable mill still turning , I live 3 miles from the Rice mill @ Norris Dam and it doesn't turn anymore, for some reason they don't have the water going to the wheel . Although they have put a new roof and siding on it and it really looks great, so hopefully the water supply will be restored 🤞yes sir it makes amazing cornbread, thanks for sharing Donnie 👍
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When my son was 7 he became thoroughly fascinated by mills of all kind. That year we went to Great Smokies NP for the first time. As we were driving through Cades Cove my son saw the sign for the Cable Mill and begged us to stop so that he could see the mill. His eyes were so wide with excitement when he saw the mill race, the wheel and the pond outside of the mill. When we went inside the mill he began to “talk shop” with the Park Service miller who was so surprised that a little 7 year old boy knew so much about mills! The next thing I knew this kind man took my son down to where the water turned the gears and was showed my son how each part of the mill worked. Some other visitors wanted to know why he was down on the lower level with the miller when there were “Keep out” signs everywhere. The miller asked if anyone else knew as much as this little boy did about waterwheel mills. Of course, nobody except my husband and I did, so there were no more complaints. The miller even had our son explain part of the milling process to the visitors. We had one very starry-eyed boy for weeks after that.
Two years later we returned to the park and went to see the turbine mill on the NC side of the park. Because it was raining heavily our family were the only visitors to visit the mill in 2-3 hours. Once again my son started asking questions of the miller there, and the miller was so happy to have someone who actually talk shop (now at age 9) that he took our son on the most detailed tour of every part of the mill. Our family spent at least 2 hours there, and when we left the miller thanked our son for “the most fun he’d ever had as a miller”. This son is now a watershed scientist who works for the US Geological Survey. Little did those two kind millers know that they would have a major effect on my son’s future life! I bless them both for their kindness.
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Donnie, I just want to say how much I appreciate your videos. I’m so glad I found your channel! You sound very much like a lot of friends I have in Tazewell County, Virginia! I have Appalachian roots myself, and love to see your pics and listen to your. stories. So glad that we know these things, and rejoice in them! You’ve made a fan, brother. God bless you and yours!
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I was blessed to get to spend a week in the Smokies in 2017 and it was absolutely breathtaking how beautiful the area is. We visited the mill and I really enjoyed getting to see how it all worked. Walking along the stream was probably my favorite part of that day though. It’s so peaceful out there. 🙂
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Love this video! Thanks for sharing! Thought we would not hear from you until after your hunting trip. Pleasant surprise! Good luck on your adventure...stay safe...God bless!
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Nice .. I love the mountains. Thank you Sir 😊. .. awesome Mill . ✌️😎📸💯
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Imagine the stories that have been told in and around that old mill. The history!
That is something to think about my friend.
Thank you for showing more of those beautiful mountains and the life that used to be there
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This is a great place to bring the grandkids. What better place to keep history alive than a working Grist mill. this is a living history museum. thanks for doing your part to keep history alive. Your friend, Louise
Thank you friend. So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks so much.
Haven't seen the old mill in ten years, thanks friend ❤️
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This makes me crave buckwheat cakes and homemade sausage! 😋 Thanks
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Beautiful country, beautiful mill, beautiful music and beautiful narration.
Thanks my friend for sharing this. God bless you.
That's really good work...still standing from the 1800's!!
That's a long time my friend.
Thanks Donnie for sharing another great story.
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So beautiful those Old Grist Mills 😍.
Thanks Donnie 😊.
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Every video is a treasure. I watch and listen to your videos before I go to work. Regulates and tempers my mood ready to help people. So much information. So much care goes into the production. Much appreciated Mr.Donnie Laws.
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Great video. I have a special friend in NC that restored and makes a new grist mill. We're all so happy his life dream is coming true. God bless Mr. Donnie.
Good one Donnie, made me hungry, miss grandma s cornbread 😋
Thank you friend.
Great shows keep up the good work be safe my friend
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
Such a beautiful historic place and video Donnie.....with the view up Mill creek and all....I could see doing some fishing off that log off the bank....there's something so peaceful about these old mills ...I believe it would do our country alot of good to keep in touch with the old ways like the grist mills , and keep ready for service what steam power we have left as well , as these things need no grid ....
Thank you for this wonderful video Brother.
Awesome my friend. So true. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Thank you for your sharing.
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I love going into the old building especially when they are still being productive 🥰
So many treasured memories of the past. Thank you Donnie for keeping old historical places alive and for showing this younger generation the steps that were involved into grinding cornmeal. Now days you just go to the grocery store and buy it , without thinking where it came from. Your right about hot buttered cornbread, buttermilk and cornbread is good too .
Stay safe and blessed.
That's so true my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
That really is the invention from someone that is a deep thinker. An original inventor for sure. Thanks for showing how this invention works. Understanding this helps us to see inside the mind of a brilliant man. Thanks for sharing, your friend Louise
One of our favorite vacation spots. Thank you for the information on the mill.
One of the things that this video did for me was looking at that pan of cornbread was make me wish that mom still around she made the best cornbread
Thank you for the memory's
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Saw the mill 2 weeks ago. Awesome!
Thanks Donnie, always enjoy the videos. 👍
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You my brother are an absolute gem of these mountains. Just know I truly appreciate all your wisdom
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
Beautiful place. I been to the Smokey's many times I live maybe two hours away. Cades cove is beautiful
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Watched this one early this morning but was not logged in, so coming back to leave this comment. Love these old mills, been to this one a few times but know that I have learned more about the Cable family, even more interesting ! Thanks
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We’re going to visit in 6 weeks! My husband and I both love the cove we go every time, you’re story telling makes it that much more interesting! We love your stories! Thank you!
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I fell in love with East TN while wandering around Cades Cove! Thanks!
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You're right Donnie there's nothing better than a good pan of cornbread and some butter. Beautiful video thanks for everything you do it takes me back to my childhood. I spent many a day watching that m i l l work we used to go up Cades Cove all the time when I was a kid. Going to have to go back and see that place again. Again thanks for the video
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Beautiful video thanks Donny.
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Thanks for the videos and the history! Cade's Cove is my favorite place to go for a true relaxing and heartwarming visit, I absolutely love this place and the history about it and the people who were in my opinion, fortunate enough to live here and the love that they had for it.
Howdy Donnie- them old mills are just about a thing of the past. Used to be one a couple miles south of us but it’s long gone. Thanks for sharing this. God bless
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Enjoyed the history of the grit mill. Cades Cove is a beautiful place.
Thank you friend.
Where I live in Ohio Lancaster Ohio actually on south end of town way before our time a creek in near called tarhe run now but years ago was called carpenter run after carpenter family in the 1800s had a grist mill which years ago with son I think I found it’s old foundation but it’s so totally lost local history I don’t think anyone remembers but I knew of cause of old county books I found at local library YEARS ago then I found em on eBay and got em. I just love local history of my “home” town and of cades cove/seveirville, pigeon forge, smoky mountains area.❤ thank you so much youtube for finding your videos and thank you sir for your videos most of all. Makes me miss Tennessee so so much yet I feel like I’m back to my secondary home watching your videos❤. We have a original grist mill still stands in Fairfield county Ohio plus a covered bridge i so love covered bridges too but it’s been restored and alot of folk lore with that grist mill and the beginning of the hocking river. I was on front page of lancaster newspaper in the 80s on that bridge field trip nose all bandaged up and super cute older girl kissing me on the cheek🤣. I’ll have to see if my Gma white has that news article lol. My mom God rest her soul cracked up for days over it😂
WOW Thanks for sharing this information my friend.
Thank you Donnie for sharing God bless
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We love Cades Cove!! We have been there several times and it is absolutely beautiful!!
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
How very awesome, Cades Cove. My favourite place, thanks, Donnie!
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Great video Donnie, thanks for sharing your video
Goid bless you Donnie for recording another piece of history.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.
Thank you sir!! From Western PA!!
Thank you once more, Mr Donnie!
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THUMBS up to this video!!!!👍👍👍👍👍 to you and yours a good Thanksgiving month!!!🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎆
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Love this, I am fascinated with the Old Mills. You never disappoint with your content, information and research. Thank you Mr. Laws. God bless.
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Stone milled Corn meal rolled with fresh caught January/February Trout skillet fried. With day old big pot of Pinto Beans & Corn bread. Eating don't get any better than that.
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing Donnie. I love those old grist mills.
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That cornbread looks fantastic! 🤤
What a wonderful video. God has blessed us with all this beauty. Have a wonderful day.
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Such a beautiful place.
It sure is my friend.
This what we made practically everything that we need now, what I mean is less reliable on foreign out sources and more on our own skills. We need to more of this and less of foreign interference.
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Like other comments point out this history wouldn't be known to us without you sharing this thank you. We all know smokey mountains but your showing the people's stories that went with it I really love learning that must have been something to live that way few hundred years ago.
It was a hard life my friend, but simple. Your very welcome. God bless you.
THANK YOU DONNIE... They used to sell in bags of cornmeal ...I hope that they still do!
It's been far too long since I have been to Cades Cove. I need to make this my next vacation. Thank you for the videos! I am enjoying them.
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Thank you so much for sharing so much with us..
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We (my third husband and two youngest out of three step children) were there in summer of 2016 stayed in a motel in Sevierville and I’m such a nature nut I wanted us to get out and drive around didn’t care just headed to the woods so to speak, my step children were 12 and 16 at the time they and their dad didn’t do nature driving without a GPS so I told them to turn down this road and I mean it was a beautiful adventure, we stopped at the primitive church and on to cable mill (which until this video I didn’t know what it was called) took pictures of it all. I’m from Texas born and raised my two kids same and now my daughter and her family live in Tennessee and my son is in Mississippi our family heritage way way back when is Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama I guess in our own way we’re going back home. I will live there in the future myself. I am so glad I stumbled upon these videos while I was researching Tennessee.
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Hey Donnie. Beautiful place. Nothin better than warm corn bread with butter or honey, and a cold glass of buttermilk. Thanks friend and have a great evening.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Mr Donnie😊
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Awesome
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Thank you for the history and great videos. You do a wonderful job Donny!!!!
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Such a fascinating story! I love learning new things!
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Thank you Mr. Donnie !
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Donnie, many thanks for this interesting story. Such beautiful scenery. I'd sure love to sit there and listen to the water and wheel turning.
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Just incredible creation for so many centuries they were hand made hand ground and the power of water I enjoyed this video and admire how fortunate you were to be able to video it to share beautiful indeed. Blessings 🤠🙏🏻
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Another great video Mr. Donnie!! Just shows how nature is very important to us!! Pass the Corn Bread please!! Take care my friend and God bless you Sir and your family. Thank you again my friend.
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Love your videos!! Please keep making this great content Sir!!
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Really, very enjoyable. Thanks.
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You need to look up Justin Metcalf here on RUclips. He is in Mars Hill in Madison County, North Carolina. He dresses millstones and has even built his own mill. His channel is called Metcalf Mills
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Again Donnie Great story your the best of the best I think you missed your calling you should have been doing this long time ago!!!! Love your history of the great smokey mountains . Thank you for another GREAT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!
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It reminded me of Hansons Lumber mill, from "The Little House on the prairie" 👍
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Wow! That mill and surrounding area is just breathtaking! Your video is great! I want to drop everything and drive there now😉 I would sit by the stream and just soak in the beauty and pray.
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Thank you for sharing, i havd been to that mill before. Great memories, i have always loved that place. I hope you and having a great vacation Donnie. God bless you and your whole family.....🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊🙂😀
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Thank You So Very Much For Everything Donnie, I Enjoy All Your Videos
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Thank you Mr. Donnie for another AWESOME video 💙
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You have become my favorite bed time story
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Hey Donnie Tommy from Jonesboro another great video and also good luck on your hunt a deer steak 🥩 sounds good right now god bless you and please be safe on that hunt my friend
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Donnie when I was young I worked in a metal fab shop I welded up a water Wheel from start to finish and it was a lot of work . I also was hunting some land we rented and found a pile of them old mill stones in a gully I would like to had one but it was to heavy to carry I was told there had been a old mill there at one time . !! ❤😊
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That's so interesting!!
Thank you Donnie! Real interesting! Never saw the inner workings! God Bless
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Thanks again Donnie for another great video 👍🙏
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Great Video! I Appreciate You Sharing With Us! So Interesting!!!
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Thanks, Donnie. I bought some corn meal there about 30 years ago. it was a lot different from the stuff they sell in the grocery stores.
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