| The
Land Trust for the
Little Tennessee
88 East Main Street
P. O. Box 1148
Franklin, NC 28744-1148
Phone: 828-524-2711
Fax: 828-524-4741
Email: LTLT |
The
Tessentee Farm Map |
- A
- Farmhouse built around 1890. Stone smokehouse,
2-story root cellar and apple shed, chicken coop. Old wagon
road passed between house and root celar.
- B
- Silo built in late1940's. View of Historic Little Tennessee
Valley: South across the Tessentee Bottoms (possible site
of the 1760 battle); North to Cowee Bald. Excellent hawk-viewing
location.
- C
- Foot trail through old-growth oak trees and spring heads.
- D
- Red Cedar Savannah. Rocky soil was never plowed. Native
grasses and flowers.
- E
- 5-acre wetland complex. The most botanically diverse wetland
in this part of the valley.
- F
- Little Tennessee floodplain. 250' of eroding stream bank
stabilized and 1000' river bank reforested in 2000. River
channel likely area to see ducks, geese, kingfishers, and
heron.
- G
- Tessentee Creek. Clearer waters drain the granite rock
of the Blueridge.
- H
- Tessentee Bottoms. 12 acres of rich bottomland grow 12-fee-tall
vegetation. Excellent area for wildlife. Potential wetland
restoration at foot of bluff.
- I
- Ridgetop openlands. Grasslands with scattered shrubs.
Good habitat for birds, rabbit, deer and other wildlife.
- J
- Second-growth mixed pine/hardwood forest. Look for trees
uncommon to Macon County, such as Blackjack oak.
- K
- White oak cove forest. Most natural forest on property.
Abundant springtime flowers.
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