Toxey Hall - May 21, 2005

I have just posted a picture of Jesse Craton Hall’s Cabin on Hazel Creek in Swain County, NC. On 4 April 05: My son Don brought this book to my to my attention.

Source: In the Spirit of Adventure, A 1914 Smokey Mountain Hiling Adventure, D. R. Beeson, Panther Press, PO Box 636, Seymour, TX 37865.

p.22: “We reached the Hall cabin, another herdsmans place like the Spencer cabin on thunderhead at 1130 this morning and had dinner at a fine spring a hundred or so feet from the top of the ridge. -----“
p.88 (Glossary) “Hall Cabin – According to Hirum C. Wilburn, ‘ this location was on the Tennessee-NorthCarolina State line in a high flat gap approximately 3 ½ mi. East of Thunderhead. It was built by the Calhouns and Halls of the Hazel Creek area about 1885 as a [cattle] rangers cabin. It was used mainly by people in the Hazel area, but any one – [cattle] rangers, hunters, hikers who passed took shelter under its roof. Beeson and Mathis looked the building over and left a record of their passing by writing on its walls , as was the custom. It was from this writing that another party led by Warren Dehl (?) knew where to send the lost and found camera lens. Hall’s cabin was located on what is now called Derrick Knob”

There is alo a mention of this and similar herdsman’s cabins at “ Our Southern Highlanders , Chapter III - The Great Smoky Mountains", at http://www.ls.net/~newriver/osh/osh3.htm