All ages will step back in time in the Living History areas. There will be demonstrations and games showing life of the early settler and Cherokee  in the early 1800s.  Learn about the favorite games of the Cherokee, beading and corn husk doll making!  Interact with 18th Century camps and taste dishes cooked over an open fire. A Long Hunters camp will have all the camping equipment used by these early frontiersman  as they crossed the Appalachian mountains into the American frontier. Watch how a Native American flute is made and listen to live Native American flute music. Learn more about the Cherokee in our area and their removal through forced treaties and later forced removal   through the Hall Museum's displays in building 1. 

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Learn to use a cross cut saw at the Benton MacKaye Trail Association’s booth, watch a grist mill as it grinds corn into cornmeal, a sugar cane mill juice sugar cane, use a corn sheller, make your own rope, learn about blacksmithing and watch iron ore smelting throughout the day! Early settlers will be sewing on a treadle sewing machine, weaving, quilting, grinding herbs, blowing fox horns, and “calling” turkeys!