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A couple of old post cards for the cabins in Shepard of the Hills country.

Jonesburg Mo. Slave cabin

 This old slave cabin sits near the town center, and is a one day a week museum.
Love the fireplace and the configuration of the floor plan.
I don't know, and it doesn't say whether or not these two building set like this at their original location, but it does work on this site.

This is the east front and north side.

 The back side and north end.

 A little closer look at the front showing how the smaller cabin sits back a little from the front.

The lack of fine detail in the hewing and the knotching also suggest that it was not, to the land owner, a very important building and the slaves probably only got to work on it when they could.
The axe work on the masters house would have been a lot better.

 Front and south end.

This small building sits near by, original purpose unknown.

Bishops log cabin

 Although that is not the original name of the cabin, it is known as that for the man who rebuilt it and did much of the work for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial float for St. Charles Mo. Glen Bishop.

Old log barn

This is an old log barn I helped my nephew take down a number of years ago. The logs were in great shape. My only misgivings was the wide space between the logs would have required a lot of chinking.
When taking down old barns like this it is kinda fun (and sometimes sad) to see how the structure has been changed to suit various needs over the years; logs moved or cut. openings made to make new doors or windows.
The logs had been very well protected.
He eventually gave the logs to another project and I don't know what became of them.

Look at the size of those logs!

Five logs high. That is incredible, and not many around like that now a days. Each one of those look to be about three feet wide.
The cabin was built in 1841 in Indiana. Other than that I don't know any more about it.


As a point of reference; My cabin is the picture below. Count up five logs and see that they only come up to the bottom of the window.
In the old black and white picture the window is in the second log.
I have only seen one cabin with logs this size myself.
My cabin has nine to ten logs to reach the same height.
Wow!

It seems the cabin has been preserved at Turkey Creek State Park, Indiana.

In this picture you can see that the logs are very narrow and in no way equal the width of the side view.
The logs were probably split which meant one section made more than one log, there by weighing less and not taking up so much interior room.