Henry Whitehead Cabin

Matilda Shields Gregory and her young son were abandoned by her husband, virtually unheard of in the deeply religeous Cades Cove community. Her brothers rallied to quickly build her a make shift log home. She later fell in love with and married the widower, Henry Whitehead, in 1898 . Henry, in an effort to make up for the hasty construction of her previous cabin, built Matlida a fine, square sawed log home with a brick chimney, one of the finest and warmest in Cades Cove. It remains as the only one of its kind in Cades Cove and The Great Smoky Mountains National Park.