TRAPPERS CABIN
(IN PROGRESS)
TRAPPERS CABIN
The trappers’ cabin is currently in progress. The log cabin was originally located on Zephyr Road. It was the Hamby house and will be the smallest house on Cinder Ridge Farm. It was fourteen feet by fourteen feet with a lean-too bedroom built onto the back side with a small loft. The Hamby family raised four children in that cabin. Joe decided to make it a trappers cabin after finding steel traps and hide stretching boards in the cabin. The original cabin did not include a fireplace. However, it had a brick flu with a hole for a stove pipe. They probably heated the small house with the cookstove. The house was built in the late 1800s but we will rebuild it to look like a pioneer trappers cabin in the early 1700s with a dirt floor, board roof, and very primitive stacked chimney and fireplace on the back of the house.
OTHER STRUCTURES AT THE TRAPPERS CABIN
Other structures at the Trappers cabin will include a primitive tannery and a one stall barn for a mule.
