Dolly Parton's Childhood Home Was CRUELER Than You Thought
Whisperland Fables
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There is a two-room log cabin at Dollywood. Three million people a year walk up to it, and every one of them looks at it through a glass partition.
It is not her house. Her brother built it in 1986 and her mother furnished it from memory.
The real one is eleven miles away on Locust Ridge Road. It still stands, she renovated it herself, and it has been closed to the public for forty years.
Fourteen people lived in it. Two rooms, no electricity, no running water, and a wall that only went two thirds of the way up.
Look at the wallpaper in the replica. Floral — and underneath it, newspaper.
*Sources*
PEOPLE and Business Insider on the Tennessee Mountain Home replica
Visit My Smokies on the cabin's interior and the family's original objects
Dolly Parton, My Life and Other Unfinished Business (1994)
Sevier County records on the Locust Ridge property
Dollywood on the DreamMore time capsule and the porch fragment
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Dolly Parton's Childhood Home Was CRUELER Than You Thought
Whisperland Fables
4,135 views
There is a two-room log cabin at Dollywood. Three million people a year walk up to it, and every one of them looks at it through a glass partition.
It is not her house. Her brother built it in 1986 and her mother furnished it from memory.
The real one is eleven miles away on Locust Ridge Road. It still stands, she renovated it herself, and it has been closed to the public for forty years.
Fourteen people lived in it. Two rooms, no electricity, no running water, and a wall that only went two thirds of the way up.
Look at the wallpaper in the replica. Floral — and underneath it, newspaper.
*Sources*
PEOPLE and Business Insider on the Tennessee Mountain Home replica
Visit My Smokies on the cabin's interior and the family's original objects
Dolly Parton, My Life and Other Unfinished Business (1994)
Sevier County records on the Locust Ridge property
Dollywood on the DreamMore time capsule and the porch fragment