| The first constructed settler's cabin goes all the way | | | | 1900's, it is hard to say who coins the creation. The |
| back to the early 1800's in the East Charlotte area of | | | | outdoor structure itself most likely dates back to the |
| Vermont. American settlers, trappers and loggers all | | | | time of American Indians and even cave men! The |
| constructed these types of structures to use as | | | | only difference in these structures and settler's cabins |
| temporary homes while on their journey across the | | | | is that the cabins were only intended for very short |
| frontier. The first of these homes that were | | | | use. |
| constructed were made of beech and pine timbers | | | | There is a Settler's Cabin Park in Pennsylvania where |
| and were hand hewn. There are even areas of the | | | | you can experience the closest thing to the pioneer's |
| country where the history of these cabins dates | | | | life back in the earlier days. An actual archeologist |
| around the 1750s! | | | | from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has |
| The structure of these cabins was not meant to last | | | | even visited this park and verified all of the cabins |
| more than three winters. A settler's cabin was only | | | | dating back to the 1780's. The history is really rich here |
| designed to fit a pioneer's family through the winter, in | | | | and it is one of the few places you can see the cabins |
| between moving across the country to another area. It | | | | and how they were set up when the settlers were |
| almost looked like the settlers threw some logs and | | | | using them. |
| sticks together to make a shelter. These cabins would | | | | To experience how life really was when this housing |
| resemble more of an overnight structure to the | | | | was the only option you can take advantage of a cool |
| outdoors adventurist today. Some of the earliest | | | | tour called the Burning Settler's Cabin. This little train |
| cabins from the 1800's were not photographed so the | | | | ride will take you back to a time where Indians were |
| only documentation is by descriptions passed down | | | | either with you or against you, and in this |
| from ancestors. | | | | demonstration they were obviously against the pioneer. |
| The design of the early settler's cabin was French | | | | The cabin appears to be engulfed in flames but it is |
| Canadian and a few of some late 1800 cabins are still | | | | actually set up and safely controlled. After you get off |
| standing today in certain areas. Iowa, Vermont, and | | | | the train, you can even walk around inside of the |
| New York are just a couple of the places you can | | | | burning cabin to see how a settlers home would have |
| visit and tour actual cabins that were built by people on | | | | looked like for the frontier traveler. |
| the Wild West movement. When you think about the | | | | Unfortunately, because records were so poorly kept in |
| people and events that occurred around the settler's | | | | the earlier days it is hard to correctly date the settler's |
| cabin, it is amazing how much history they store. | | | | cabin and the exact tools and techniques they used to |
| You could find these cabins in the Midwest and East | | | | build them. We can only take what has been passed |
| Coast but the true History of the settler's cabin is | | | | down through the generations to help recreate the |
| unknown. There are dozens of countries, provinces, | | | | structures and the history they carry along with them. |
| and states that lay claim to the creation of the cabins | | | | For photos of some early American settler's cabins |
| but since there was no documentation until the early | | | | you can do a quick search on the internet. |