The John Ownby Cabin is a historic cabin in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. Located in The Sugarlands, it lies within the boundaries of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was built in 1860, and is the last surviving structure of the Forks-of-the-River community living in the pre-park area. Improvements were made in the dilapidated cabins in 1964, which included replacing the front porch, and cabins added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The cabins currently stand along the Alam Sugarlands Path, an interpretive pathway accessible behind the Sugarlands Visitor Center.
The cabin is a one-story cabin, one-pen measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) with 18 feet (5.5 m). The walls are made of white pine and poplar wood with dove-tail sounds. The interior of the cabin contains a sawmill floor, and it does not have an attic. The 4-foot (1.2 m) terrace consists of saw boards above the logged wooden threshold. The tiled roof in the cabin is covered with oak chips, and the roof of the terrace, which is slightly lower than the roof of the cabin, is supported by a hardwood pole. The cabin has two door boards and a batten and two windows, and a chimney made of debris and red clay.
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