Log and Timber Home Living

The Many Lives of a HISTORIC LOG HOME

If walls could talk, this cabin, tucked onto 20 acres of the picturesque Shenandoah Valley, would have an encyclopedia of tales to tell. You see, the cabin’s history goes back — way back.

Before Virginia gained its statehood, before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, before Jefferson constructed Monticello, there was this house, built around 1760 by a farmer in the hills of southern Virginia. In this humble one-room cabin with a loft, the farmer and his wife raised nine children.

In its next iteration, the cabin was converted to a barn,

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