Log Cabin Style
By Sydni Waters
History of The Log Cabin
This style came about from the American settlers, making it a very plain, less structurally complicated house. These houses are usually made of pine and/or spruce, overlapping the logs of trees to make the walls, corners would be what would secure the logs together by carving out sections where the bottom/top will fit into, without the use of nails. The gaps in between the logs were filled by moss, or with rocks and mud, depending on the time period. The pioneers were the people that started the popularity of the log cabin, when they lived out on the frontier, they didn't have neighbors for miles, so they would have to build their houses with the resources given, usually depending on how wealthy they were. There were many historical figures that lived in a log cabin, like Abraham Lincoln, who actually made his own by himself, Benjamin Banneker, Sue Thomas, and Daniel Boone, being some of them.