Posted on 08/26/2009 7:03:43 AM PDT by jay1949
The 1820s American Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia, features a log house which incorporates an original log cabin built in 1773. The two wings of the house, joined by an enclosed dogtrot, demonstrate the progression in log-structure building techniques from colonial to early American times. This log farm house is a Shenandoah Valley original, moved from northern Rockingham County to the Museum and reconstructed on a hillside site.
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That’s a great museum. I learned a lot there
My guess is that some of the logs may have been contained in an older cabin, but that cabin, sitting on a stone foundation on a hillside, is new.
As far as I know, the logs are original to the 1773 and 1820 construction, although it is possible that some of the timber was replaced. I don’t know whether there was a basement for the Bowman House at its original site, but it is highly doubtful that the 1773 structure had a basement.
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