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JOE TENNIS

COUNTRY ROADS

Park manager Jackie Fischer shows off a recently built replica of the David Crockett birthplace cabin near Limestone, Tennessee.

RE-CREATING THE 18TH CENTURY

CROCKETT RISES
A Tennessee state park takes pains to go back to its genuine roots.
Jackie Fischer honed her skills as a historic inter- resents David Crockett's cabin.'"
In its place, just above the banks of the Nolichucky
preter at Virginia's Wilderness Road State Park, about 10
River, park officials are developing a new and evermiles east of the Cumberland Gap.
But since 2016, Fischer has helped change the name evolving interpretive area-even to the point of moving
a popular picnic shelter.
of what was once called "Davy Crockett
"We decided to honor the integrity of
Birthplace State Historic Park." That LimeDavid
Crockett by reclaiming it as a historic
stone landmark is now "David Crockett"-
DAVID
CROCKETT
site," Fischer says. "The Crocketts were very
what Fischer, the park manager, says is a betBIRTHPLACE
poor. They didn't own the land. And we've
ter reflection of the Tennessee congressman
STATE PARK:
been building-or re-creating-a farmstead
and American folk hero (1786-1836), whose
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that we feel more accurately represents
legend was cemented, rightly or wrongly, as
Crockett's era."
"Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier"
The farmstead includes a crude log cabin
in movies and television.
"During Crockett's lifetime, he really was not called and a barn plus pens for horses, mud-wallowing Ameri'Davy,'" says Fischer, 62. "That was a Disney thing, and can guinea hogs and heirloom chickens. "We have all
18th-century breeds," Fischer says with a smile.
it was sort of a derogatory term for him in congress."
"I have set my authenticity bar high," says Fischer.
Fischer has done more than turn "Davy" into "David." She also relocated a replica cabin away from the "We want to try to create a really nice image that when
river at the park, owing to its lack of authenticity. That folks come onto the farmstead, they get a really nice
glimpse of 18th century life."
cabin contains concrete and milled lumber.
-JOE TENNIS
"It's really hard as an interpreter to say, 'Yes, this rep-

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