Museum of Appalachia - The Mark Twain Family Cabin

Today we visited The Museum of Appalachia, located in Norris, Tennessee, 20 miles (32 km) north of Knoxville. It is a living history museum that interprets the pioneer and early 20th-century period of the Southern Appalachian region of the United States.

Mark Twain family cabin.
The "Mark Twain family cabin" is believed to have belonged to Twain's father, John Clemens, and may have been where the author's older siblings were born and where the author himself was conceived (the Clemens family moved to Missouria few months before he was born).

The cabin was originally located in the Possum Trot community in Fentress County, Tennessee, where John Clemens served as a post master and circuit court clerk. The cabin's chimney was added around 1905. The Museum of Appalachia purchased and moved the cabin to the museum in 1995.

Larger cabin

After the museum, our host Perry took us on a walking tour of downtown Knoxville. What a beautiful and fascinating city it is.