A. P. Carter Boyhood Home

A. P. Carter's boyhood home was a mid-1800s log cabin in Little Valley, parallel to Poor Valley, with two log rooms connected by a passageway. His parents, Bob and Mollie (Bayes) Carter, raised their eight children there, in a space filled by four beds and a kitchen table, and the family later added a second-floor sleeping area. As the cabin became inaccessible and fell into ruin at its original site, it was moved to the Fold site in 2003, restored, and opened to the public in 2004. Marty Stuart, a longtime performer with Johnny Cash and a friend of the Carter family, led the effort to save, move, and reconstruct the cabin. The restored cabin includes objects and artifacts from the Carter and Cash families, and the structure is designated as both a national and state historic landmark.

Virginia · United States