Partin House and Barn

Partin House and Barn. circa 1950s. Dixie Partin (1893-1977) was the youngest son of Hugh Gilmore Partin, Jr and Margaret Hull. He married Emma Gill (1900-1987) and had three daughters, Louise, Marcile and Naomi. He purchased land near his father's homestead (Sun Flower Trail) where he was born. He built a log cabin and planted a large orange grove. Later he purchased the adjacent land where he and Bunk Harrell built this house and barn in the early 1950s. This new house was constructed from pine that Dixie Partin and Robert Rouse cut and cured from nearby woods. The Flower's Lumber Company, once located at what is now State Road 50 and Alafaya Trail, sawed it to specifications. The barn was made of hand hewn cypress poles that were salvaged from the old log house that Dixie and Emma built as a young couple. The barn had rough cut lumber on the interior and 12" board siding on each end., The interior consists of three bedrooms, a dining room, kitchen, living room and bath. The ceilings and main walls are of tongue and groove, knotty pine. The cabinets in the kitchen were built of timber that was sawed at the sawmill in Bithlo (probably in the teens or 1920s). This wood was originally for a boat and Dixie carried it from place to place until he built the boat and then used the leftover boards in the cabinets. Bunk Harrell and Vance May helped build the cabinets.