Bill King calls them jewel boxes. Early Wisconsin settlers called them homes. Today they are just old log cabins and the search is on to find, restore, or move and reconstruct and hang on to a bit of the past. King, who lives near Galesville, is in the preservation business to move those old structures and restore them to as near their original condition as possible. He calls his firm, Preservation Plus, Inc. King and his three-man crew have studied construction methods of yesteryear and use the same basic tools as the pioneers did. Right now they are taking down a one-room cabin found on a farmer's land near Arcadia. Records show it was built in 1848 with the upper story used for sleeping by its frontier inhabitants. The logs are carefully dismantled and tagged so that when the cabin is rebuilt elsewhere, all the logs will be in the same paces. Photographs and sketches help the crew in the reconstruction. King checked a numbered log and its peg, or trunnel that holds the logs together. Log cabins.
Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches. Photo is dated 10-08-1984.
.
Photo back:
