Little Greenbrier
Once known simply as "Greenbrier," but the "Little" was added to its name to distinguish it from the larger Greenbrier.
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Little Greenbrier Details
Little Greenbrier is the name of a former Appalachian community that is now an historical area in the Great Smoky Mountains. The community was situated in a hollow rising from Metcalf Bottoms along Little River to the upper slopes of Cove Mountain, in the northeastern section of the national park. Little Greenbrier was once known simply as "Greenbrier," but the "Little" was added to its name to distinguish it from the larger town of Greenbrier located between Mount Le Conte and Mount Guyot to the east. Little Greenbrier is currently home to the Walker Cabin and the Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse— both on the National Register of Historic Places. The earliest documented settlers in Little Greenbrier were Alexander McKenzie and Arthur "Brice" McFalls. McKenzie and McFalls, who had been neighbors in South Carolina, arrived in the 1830s. McFalls is believed to have built a cabin in the 1840s that was reassembled by later arrival John Walker as the "kitchen" half of the Walker Cabin. Around the time of the Civil War, William and Riley Metcalf, two brothers of Cherokee descent, moved their families to the flats around the confluence of Little Brier Branch and Little River that now bears their name. During the construction of Little River Road in the 1920s, members of the Metcalf family supplied drinking water to road construction crews, and in appreciation the picnic area later established in the area by the National Park Service was named for the Metcalfs. Source: Wikipedia
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Little Greenbrier
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0.6 mi away
Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area
165 sites, pavilion available, open year-round
0.6 mi away
Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Area
Named for a local family who supplied park workers with fresh spring water.
0.9 mi away
Walker Sisters Place
The surviving structures-which include the cabin, springhouse, and corn crib-were once part of a farm.
1.7 mi away
The Sinks
Legend has it that a lumber train once derailed and fell into the deep waters here.
