Colonel Hamp Tipton, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, built this two story home shortly after the Civil War. The homestead he built eventually included a smokehouse, a woodshed, corn crib, blacksmith shop, cantilever barn, and an apiary for bees. Two daughters, Miss Lucy and Miss Lizzie, were schoolmarms in Cades Cove in the last half of the 1800s.
A photo of The Tipton Place in winter snow can be seen at:
http://www.pbase.com/bkiefer/image/56119594