Walker Sisters Place

Visit this historic cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains.

The Walker Sisters Place is a historic cabin dating back to the 1870s. It is located on the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and is accessible via the Metcalf Bottoms Trail. John N. Walker was the father of the Walker Sisters who lived here, and he served in the Union army during the American Civil War. After the war, he got married and moved to the area. They raised 11 children and created close family ties with each other, teaching them how to be self-reliant and resourceful. The Walker sisters were Margaret, Mary (nicknamed Polly), Martha, Nancy, Louisa, Sarah, and Hettie, all of whom were born in this historic home.

Over the years, they established outbuildings around the home, such as a barn, grist mill, smokehouse, pig pen, and blacksmith shop. The Walker Sisters Place is a two-story, three-room cabin, and it is said that the floors were often covered in flowers because the sisters loved growing flowers so much. The sisters remained at this home even after the Great Smoky Mountains National Park came to be. See the legacy of the Walker family at this historic cabin.