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Yesterday Greg and I went for a country drive, and discovered but minutes from our home, this amazingly well preserved log cabin.
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I love this primitive number of a little bench. I could make one of these!
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This house was the Stauffer log house that was built in 1867. I realize that is not a genuinely "early" time for our country, but this is the West! And, it is
amazingly well preserved by the Aurora Colony preservationists.
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I love this view of the out buildings.
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Just a nice shot at those fabulous logs. (I much prefer this style of log to the rounded ones.)
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Enter the front door.
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This is the smoke house.
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Here is a shot of the window in the smoke house.
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This is the hog house. See the two doors.
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The closed hog door.
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The opened hog door.
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And finally, right in the front door, the pet door!
To learn more about the Stauffer log house, visit
this link: