Cabin Fever
By :"A. Carolina Castillo Crimm"
Published on 2002 by
Category :"History"
The Roberts-Farris Cabin was built around 1840 for Allen Roberts, a stepson of one of the original Walker county settlers, Hezekiah Farris. The cabin may have been built by an itinerant builder whose distinctive square-hewn logs and half-dovetail notches are found in several other cabins and buildings in the area. Roberts, the son of Hezekiah's wife, who had settled on a nearby grant, later gave the cabin to his half-brother, who moved into the small cabin with his family. The Farris family later relocated the cabin on three different sites, disassembling and rebuilding the hewn logs. The cabin was finally situated on the property of Alton Farris, who rented the cabin out to tenant farmers throughout the years of the depression, including a couple who used it as their honeymoon cabin in 1939. During the following sixty years, the cabin was used as a storage shed for hay before being rescued in 2001 through the efforts of Maggie Farris Parker, and students from Sam Houston State University, who moved it to the town square as part of a Main Street Project. The cabin is currently open for tourists Monday through Sunday and is used as a shop by several hand-craft groups, including the Huntsville Spinners and Weavers, the Huntsville Quilt Guild, and the Senior Center of Walker County. Book jacket.
Lenght : 88
Language : en
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