America's Oldest Cabins
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
September 9, 2019 8:29pm CST
One of my favorite youtube channels does Early American Colonial History. Today they dropped a video about log cabins. They would like to make one (they made one in the past) and so took a little tour of a few of the sites of original or reproduction cabins. The exact cabin they were looking for no longer exists but it seems they had fun along the way.
I am super excited about this project for them.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Sep 19
That's incredible. I am sure there are people that maintain it, but I imagine they are using the same techniques that their forefathers did to make the cabin?
I am going to go looking for pictures of the cabin.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Sep 19
@LadyDuck I read an article about it just a few minutes ago. It is now used as a museum. The original owners of this home would have been wealthier from what the article I read said.
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
10 Sep 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum They keep it, but they do not use modern materials. Here is a photo, like it is, exactly as it was built.
@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Sep 19
Sounds interesting. I love the look of log cabins.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
10 Sep 19
As do I. They have such a rustic feel to them.
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