Ripavilla & other Tennessee Attractions

Ripavilla is a plantation house in Tennessee that was used as a hospital during the Civil War. It was a pretty typical plantation house tour. Behind the house is a mule and farm equipment museum (barn), and it was probably one of the hottest places I've ever been in my life. The heat did not detract from the excitement, though. We also visited an old graveyard.




Lucky for us, there was an outhouse made for three. I'm not sure if it's for three different sizes, or if they're insinuating that three people would be doing their business in such close quarters. Nevertheless, it made for an entertaining photo shoot.





We also managed to take a long detour through Tennessee Amish country where we purchased Amish-made goods. This is a picture of an Amish field. Coincidentally, we saw the farm equipment used to make these types of haystacks while we were at the mule and farm equipment museum.

Wetumpka: Impact Crater & Fort Toulouse

This is not the legendary star that fell on Alabama, but apparently a long time ago, a meteor hit near Wetumpka. Auburn geologists studied it and fairly recently determined that it is an impact crater, but not before people built things on it. So if the sign wasn't there, it would be almost impossible to tell that there was a crater. Meteor Crater in Arizona is better, but at least Wetumpka is a one-day trip.





For some reason, I thought Fort Toulouse was in Louisiana...it's not. It IS a very exciting place, though.