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  • America's oldest log cabin - Home built by Finnish settlers more than 130 years before USA founded

    02/20/2018 10:35:59 AM PST · by mairdie · 62 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 20 February 2018 | Iain Burns
    The oldest standing log cabin the US - including George Washington-era artifacts - has been put on sale for $2.9 million. Nothnagle Log House was built around 1640 by Finnish settlers in the New Sweden Colony along the Delaware. The territory was taken over by the Dutch in 1655, but the magnificent 375-year-old oak cabin still stands in what is now New Jersey. It is owned and operated as a tour site by Harry Rink, 88, and his wife Doris, 75, of Greenwich Township. They are now looking for a buyer willing to accept their unique demands. The new owner...