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Photographer: Michael Sean Nix
Taken: April 23, 2009
Caption: Hewn-Timber Cabins Information Sign
Additional Description: Tools used to build cabins include pintle, scoring axe, draw knife, froe, broad axe, wedge, maul and saw. Captions include: "The skilled builders made the most difficult form of cornering, the full dovetail, so precisely that the timbers had to be numbered." and "The African-American builders of the houses used the adz and the broadax to hew massive pine trees into squared timbers of heart pine."
Submitted: April 23, 2009, by Michael Sean Nix of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p60488
File Size: 1.531 Megabytes

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