Central Virginia log cabin from our county - who knows how old.
Posted on 02/15/2010 7:51:35 AM PST by jay1949
Kentucky lays claim to the most famous of log cabins -- the one in which Abraham Lincoln was born. In the early days of Kentucky, log cabins were abundant throughout the state, and a few of these survived to be photographed in the early 20th century. Also in this collection of vintage images -- two log cabins under construction in 1940 in East Kentucky, where the old ways die hard.
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Central Virginia log cabin from our county - who knows how old.
My dad was born in a log cabin in the 1920s that was built by the first of our family in Tennessee. My grandfather was a younger son so he and my grandmother got to live in the old house. It was still standing when my parents were married but sadly it’s long gone now.
Really amazing the second one is kind of a mansion
The “lincoln” cabin has an interesting story behind it. Apparently the boyhood cabins of both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were part of a traveling display for many years. After being disassembled and reassembled so many times, the logs became so intermixed that no one knew which belonged to which and they were combined into a single “lincoln Cabin”.
Who says Reconstruction didn’t work?
I love log cabins. Thanks for the story and pictures!
Yes. When you look at it in isolation it seems much more humble than when compared to the kentucky cabin. But the materials in the Virginia cabin seem to be better to begin with and there is a chimney so more care and planning probably went into making it. And money, I suppose, too.
I wish I had a picture of my grandma’s log cabin in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies. A lot of good memories from there.
LOL
Oh wow! I love log cabins. I got to see my mothers family original log cabin in east Texas where they settled in around 1828. I was about 12 when I saw it and soon after my uncle died and the property was sold and I couldn’t find the spot now if I had to. It was the traditional dog trot cabin.
Virtually all of them lived their entire lives in log cabins.
Today a 5 acre timbered lot with original log cabin will cost you an awful lot of money in that area ~ half a million on up!
One of my grandfathers was born in a log framed stone building in Nashville, Indiana (the county seat).
The log cabins in this part of the country date from the 1830s and later.
One of the fun things to do driving through the area is to guess which "modern looking house" has a log cabin buried somewhere inside.
The clue is to look at how the windows are located with reference to the roofline and the ground ~ look long enough and you'll see the traditional logcabin module of design kind of leap out at you.
The most intriguing use of a log cabin I ever saw was one along US 50 East of North Vernon IN that had been spruced up by being wrapped with a brand new double-wide mobile home.
...for those interested. :D
Thanks I love it!
My Mother and her twin sister were born in a log cabin in northeastern Brown County in what in now Camp Atterbury. The feds kicked them out in 1940.
That is great!
amazing
Our folks owned the top of the tallest hill in Brown County ~ they called it Weed Patch HIll.
Two sources for that name. One logical source is a place name in New York where the Mohicans lived ~ and where many of the New Yorkers who settled there came from. It sounds like "weed patch hill".
Then there's the characteristic of the soil at the top. It's quite flat, and Hardin Ridge is also flat. When that comet smacked into Canada about 11,000 years ago it hit an area with major gold deposits. They went flying and much of the mother load came down on top of these hills. It's still there, and the gold, silver, platinum and other heavy metals continue to kill off just about everything but the hardiest weeds at the top.
Yes, the locals mined for gold for many years ~ probably got most of it ~ but I have my eyes on several "untouched" hilltops over near Martinsville.
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