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Stonewall Jackson - one of the more famous generals from the US civil war - was from Virginia, by the end of the war West Virginia had split off and become a separate state, on the side of the USA. Jackson's family donated a sizeable chunk of land to make amends. My wife spent many summers here at 4H camp. .
Trilho Outonal com vasinhos e flôres para enfeitar os dias mais sombrios de nosso outono, tons terrosos, ocres, etc......
Log Cabin Pillow project from The Crafter's Companion Book. Look for details on my podcast on iTunes, Quilted Cupcake Podcast
Log cabin style quilt made from a fat quarter pack I got as a gift. The colors were perfect for my parent's living room, so the quilt was made for her birthday!
this quilt is hard to photograph - it is ginormous. log cabins are mainly a mix of heather ross' mendocino and tula pink's neptune, surrounded by white cotton, and bound with yellow. back is fleece, plus a big log cabin in the middle.
I'm not sure exactly how many more blocks I will need, but if you call this 9 then I will need at least 3 probably 7 more! I'm hoping to get this done, as It needs to be ready to gift in June!
A log cabin used as a set for the movie "Shane". Although often described as being built for the movie it actually dated from the turn of the 20th Century and belonged to a homesteader named Ernie Wright. Old timers remember it as having a sod roof.
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Taken this shot on frozen Akaslompoo Lake indeed an exciting experience. I love the log cabin surrounding the lake, simple but very nice.
This is the first patchwork quilt my mother made for me. Log cabin with stars, made about 1990. Thank you, Mum x
captured through the viewfinder Ansco Rediflex + Nikon D70, first snow of the year. Log cabin doll house.
Simone came by for some crafting today and we quilted up her GIANT scrappy log cabin and put the binding on! It's fantastic and has a great weight to it.
For anyone who has grown up in a rural area, there has always been that spook abandoned shack that nobody ever uses. Often, you ma have wondered "Who owns this place". In this case, the answer is: Me!
The plan is to fix it up in the summer. Sadly, once we chink it, much of the wood won't be visible. So I took some pictures so I could remember it. It was an old pioneer homestead. There aren't that many left.
Hessler House
The Hessler house is a rare surviving log house dating from the early settlement of the Old Mission Peninsula. From 1854 to 1856, Joseph and Mary Hesler built the house of hand hewn pine and hemlock logs fourteen miles south of here on the eastern shore of the peninsula. Joseph and Mary, from Canada and Ireland respectively, were among a number of Irish, English, Canadian, and Scottish immigrants living in the southern part of the township in 1860.
Completed in 1856, the Hessler Log House typifies the first shelters built by early pioneers. Faced with acres of forest, they cleared their land, built a house with the timber, and planted crops. The Heslers sold the house in 1866. During the next 125 years it serVed as a private residence, housing for migrant workers, a school, and quarters for a bull. When the house was threatened with demolition in 1992, citizens rallied. The building was moved to this site and restored.
— Michigan registered Local Site No. 2059
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The cabin was built sometime between 1854 and 1856 by Joseph and Mary Hessler. He was Canadian, she was born in Ireland and both were in their mid forties when they arrived, probably by small ship out of Mackinaw.
Although we have no written record as to how Hessler built his cabin, it is obvious from the sheer weight and bulk of the logs that one man could not realistically build such a cabin alone. Other pioneers lived in the general vicinity including a shingle maker. At least one pioneer living close by owned some oxen whose formidable strength were often used in the lifting of the logs. Building materials were scarce so the huge timbers cut from white pine and hemlock trees to provide clearings were hand hewn and stacked on top of each other to form the walls. Dovetailed joints held the corner snugly together without nails or fasteners. Over the course of the ten or so years they lived on the Peninsula, the Hesslers were able to clear sixteen acres which they farmed. They raised corn and wheat, and he fished the waters and collected sugar sap in the spring to make maple syrup. They also had several outbuildings and a barn.
Some of the logs are replacements for the lower logs which had deteriorated over the years. Almost all of the logs on the east end are new to close the gap where a door had been cut through years ago in order to provide access for a bull which was housed in the cabin. The structure was also used during the 1950's and early 1960's as cherry picker's quarters. When these early pioneers came to the Old Mission Peninsula, none owned their land and were, in actuality, squatters, for these were still Native American lands. Thus, it became important for those foreign born to first become citizens. Hessler's application for citizenship was dated March 18, 1859. In order to open up the sale of these lands, the U.S. Congress passed what is called the Military Bounty Land Act of March 3, 1855. This act gave military land warrants to soldiers who had served in such wars as the War of 1812 or other minor Indian Wars. These warrants could then be sold. In this manner the government came up with a way for the squatters to purchase their lands. Hessler's Land Warrant was numbered 27077, originally issued in favor of Thomas McCoy who had served in the War of 1812. The date that Hessler received this warrant in the Land Office of Traverse City was June 11, 1859. So one sees why Hessler took such care in March of 1859 to make application to preempt loss of his land and to become a citizen. The final process for ownership of their 140 acres was to apply for a U.S. Patent Deed. Abraham Lincoln signed Hessler's Patent Deed on August 15, 1861.
We have no recorded documents as to what the Hesslers might have brought with them, although the furnishings we have placed in the cabin are accurate to the period and represent the few basic things they might have owned and used. The stove was used for heating although some cooking could be done by utilizing its level top. Often these early pioneers had a small addition or outbuilding where the kitchen was located. The bucket on the bucket bench next to the door was the kind he might have used when collecting sap. The bucket bench was no doubt a necessity for them to place their buckets of water for daily use. Before this cabin was moved here, it was situated about ten miles south along the shore of East Bay. The collecting of water for them was probably not too difficult. Hessler also owned a boat as did most of the early pioneers for it was their primary means of transportation. He probably took his harvested wheat across the bay to Elk Rapids to have it ground into flour. The wheat cradle in the loft was typical of that era.
The dry sink next to the stove was used for washing dishes and possibly for washing clothing during the cold winter months. The three saws hanging on the wall were used in the lumbering era at the turn of the century. The rusted linked chain was also used in the late 1800's by lumbermen to help pull heavy logs. The chain was hand forged. The large rectangular soapstone leaning against the stove was heated then placed under bedcovers for warmth.
Most of the furnishings have been donated by members of the Old Mission Peninsula Historical Society or by members and friends of the community.
— Old Mission Point Historical Society