Indiana cabins are plentiful and rich with history. Enjoy a family day visiting a cabin in Indiana or be inspired to build your own!
New
Harmony Log
Cabin
The spiritual Harmonist community was founded in
1814 by a group of 800 Pietists from Wurttemburg, Germany. Harmonist
log cabins were called "block houses" because they were
made with square timbers of oak or poplar. For their log cabins
Harmonists used a mud-clay mixture along with straw, wood chips, and
river shells to provide insulation between the timbers They
connected the logs by mortise and tenon joints, and anchored the
parts by driving kiln-dried hardwood square pegs into round holes in
the poplar framing. With the passage of time and exposure to moisture
in the atmosphere, the pegs would expand to assure a tight fit. You
can see two cabins of this style plus the entire Harmonist historical
community.
http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/KADE/newharmony/home.html
Brown
County Log
Cabins With a small ticket price that goes towards local
fundraising, you can join this tour of privately owned Indiana cabins.
http://logcabintour.com/
(See
cabins in Brown County Indiana to rent)
Indiana
Dunes National Lakeshore Log Cabin This cabin in
Indiana on the shores of Lake Michigan was featured in the Chicago
World's Fair in 1934.
http://www.nps.gov/indu/historyculture/cypress_log_cabin.htm
Richmond
Log Cabin Wayne County Historical Museum near the Eastern
Sate line in Mid-Indiana has exhibits that include two log cabins of
local origin, period clothing, furniture, portraiture, a genuine
Conestoga wagon, a blacksmith shop, print shop, bakery, loom house, a
superb collection of early Richmond made automobiles, steam powered
tractors, the first Davis airplane manufactured in Richmond in 1929,
and a whole lot more.
http://www.waynecountyhistoricalmuseum.com/
Lincoln
City Log Cabin The Lincoln Boyhood Living Memorial in
southern Indiana is a re-created pioneer homestead with a cabin,
outbuildings, split rail fences, farm animals, vegetable and herb
gardens and field crops. Rangers in period clothing perform a variety
of activities typical of the 1820 era.
http://www.nps.gov/libo/planyourvisit/index.htm
Rochester
Log Cabin Fulton County's Living History Village is
called Loyal, Indiana, for a little village that used to exist a few
miles west of the museum. Originally named Germany, Indiana, the
people changed the name to Loyal in 1918 when the U.S. was at war
with Germany. The village has many buildings including a pioneer
woman's log cabin and a round barn.
http://www.icss.net/~fchs/loyal.htm
Rome
City Cabin The Gene Stratton-Porter Cabin, built
using white cedar logs and redwood shingles, is near the Michigan
border. This was the home of the famous author of the Limberlost
books. Guided tours of the Porters' log cabin are available. There is
some really cool stuff inside the cabin. The bookshelves are filled
with books from Gene's personal library, and the antique McCray
icebox refrigerator has just been packed with a new block of "ice",
giving the cabin the same look and feel it would have had when the
Porters lived there.
http://www.in.gov/ism/StateHistoricSites/GeneStratton-PorterCabin/index.aspx
Mauckport Cabin
The Squire Boone Cavern less than forty miles
from Louisville, Kentucky features a historic village with a log
cabin gristmill built by Squire Boone in the early 1800's. The mill
has been restored and is again grinding grain just as it did nearly
two centuries ago. You can watch as the 18 foot wheel, powered by
water flowing from the caverns, turns the 1,000 pound grinding
stones. You can even buy some of the freshly ground cornmeal!
http://www.squireboonecaverns.com/
Vermillion
County Cabin Skinner Farm Village near Perrysville is
a collection of original Indiana cabins, buildings, round barn and
artifacts which represent over 150 years of local Indiana history. A
family runs it as a working farm and they sound like quite a bunch!
http://skinnervillage.eshire.net/index.html
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