Land Between the Lakes

The Home Place

One of the attractions here in the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area is an 1850’s living farm. There are two houses on the farm. The first one built is a basic 2-room house, one room up and the other down. The later house is much bigger with 3 room down and 2 rooms up. There are living history actors on site to tell you about life in the 1850’s. The gardens, outbuildings, and animals that were present in 1850 are all present on the farm. One of the unexpected treats on my visit was seeing Mother Skunk and her five babies outside their den. You can see her leading all the babies back into the den in the picture.

The Home Place is in Kentucky. We stayed in a campgound in Tennessee.