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Photographer: Bernard Fisher
Taken: August 18, 2011
Caption: About the Cabin
Additional Description: The cabin before you was originally owned by Richard Berry and was built in 1782 in Beechland, Kentucky. It is a simple, one-room, log cabin that was common among early pioneers of the Commonwealth. The hewed-log construction uses a basic V-notch corner technique with rock chinking and mud daubing. The clapboard roof is held in place with wooden pegs, the flooring is plank boards, and the stone fireplace is topped with a low stick chimney. The building was very serviceable and the small, fifteen-by-sixteen-foot size made it easy to heat in the winter. The newlyweds soon moved to Elizabethtown, where they resided in a cabin that Thomas built on one of the two town lots he owned.

In 1911 the cabin owners, William A. Clements and his son Walter L. Clements, presented it to the Harrodsburg Historical Society. An earlier effort to preserve the cabin by The Lincoln Memorial Company was unsuccessful in raising capital for the venture. A public fund was raised by the citizens of Harrodsburg to finance the relocation of the cabin to a parcel of land next to the Pioneer Cemetery that was donated by Irene Moore. The transportation of logs cost $17.00 and the re-construction of the cabin occurred at an expense of $261.00.
Submitted: August 26, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p169355
File Size: 0.244 Megabytes

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