Check out this website to give you some additional information about the cantilevered barns found in the mountains of E. TN...there are still a number of them around...and not just in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. http://www.aca-dla.org/site-templates/logessay.html There was a large group of both Germans and Scotch-Irish that came into Cocke and Sevier Counties of Tennessee (was the State of Franklin) before the Revolutionary War. There are many descendants of those families still living in that area, and back in an area called DelRio (where the TV show and book Christie took place). If you listen to the language patterns of those who still live back in the mountains, you will still hear Elizabethan English in some of their pronounciations and expressions. My husband's family were some of the original settlers into that region, along with Madison and Buncombe Counties in NC and we taught in Cocke and Sevier County. Turns out the other side of his family came from Greene County, TN...and were Irish Quakers... His parents met and married in Texas. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. B. Mason" <sbmasonaz@cox.net> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 3:00 PM Subject: [Sc-Ir] clues from architecture > One of my volunteer activities is as a reader for Reading for the Blind > and Dyslexic. Yesterday the book chosen for me to read was "Appalachian > Folkways" by John Rehder. The chapter I recorded was concerning the > structure of barns and other outbuildings in a particular region of > Appalachia. The part I thought was pertinent was a discussion by the > author about how migrations within the United States could be traced based > on the style of architecture used. He was discussing primarily barns and > contrasted German vs. Scotch-Irish barn styles. He also discussed how much > of what we consider indigenous to Appalachia is really a continuation or > expansion of European practices. Since this is the area in which many of > us find our ancestors I found it quite interesting (not everything I have > to read for them is). I did a Google search and found this: > http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/3198.html > >