Crab Orchard Museum
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Farmstead
This is a group of 3 log buildings joined by dogtrots; the farm house is on the left, the kitchen is on the right, and the lard house is behind the farm house.
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Farmstead
This view if from uphill. The lard house is on the left; the farm house is on the right; the roof of the kitchen is visible behind the lard house.
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Farmstead building - - the lard house
End view, showing log construction. The logs go all the way up to form the eaves in this construction, with round poles called "purlins" set in to carry the roof. This building, called the Lard House, is attached by a small dogtrot to the farmhouse.
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Garden area behind farmhouse
Farmhouse is to the left; note the similar construction, with dressed logs holding roof purlins all the way up.
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View of farmstead
Main farmhouse is in the center; kitchen is to the left. Additions, pioneer style.
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Farmstead kitchen
Farmhouse is to the right.
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Farmstead kitchen - - interior (1)
The inside walls of the kitchen have been whitewashed. Herbs drying on back wall, large cooking fireplace on the left.
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Farmstead kitchen - - door
Reinforced crossbuck - - there are two smaller horizontal wood strips for stability, provided on other doors by wrought-iron strap hinges. On the right side of the door, wooden dowel hinges can be seen.
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Farmstead kitchen - - interior (2)
Cupboard with crockery and utensils. Some of the pottery is authentic, some is ersatz; the cobalt-blue-decorated pieces are modern products of Williamsburg Pottery. The canning crocks (upper left) and cream riser (dead center) are authentic, mid-19th to early 20th century.
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Farmstead kitchen - - fireplace
This fireplace is outfitted for cooking. A fireplace crane is attached on the left side, and dangles a cast-iron pot with a trammel hook.
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Farmstead - - lard house
This view shows detail of the log construction.
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Farmstead - - lard house
This view shows the crossbuck door.
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Farmstead exterior
This ladder goes to the loft over the kitchen.
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View of farm house and kitchen
The main farm house is on the left, the kitchen attached by a dogtrot is in the center. To the right is the David Peery Cabin. The farm house is unusual in that it has a second story, not a loft; second-floor windows can be seen in this view.
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Farm house interior (1)
This view shows the side door and, to its left, part of the stairs to the second story. The front door of the farm house faces the opposite direction of the front door of the kitchen; the side door opens into the dogtrot between the house and the kitchen.
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Farm house interior (2)
Stairs leading to farm house second story.
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Farm house interior (3)
Back door of the farm house. Like the kitchen door, it has wooden braces and wooden dowel hinges.
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Farm house chimney
Farm house chimney built with field stone. Typically, Southern log cabins had chimneys constructed on the outside of the house; similar structures from Pennsylvania northward into New England had chimneys built on the inside, often in the center of the cabin, owing to the colder winter temperatures.
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Farm house chimney detail
The stone in the center of the image contains fossils.
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Split-rail fence
This is chestnut split-rail fence. Once there were tens of thousands of miles of such fence in southern Appalachia. The rails in this fence are at least 70 years old.
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Split-rail fence detail
Split-rail fences were stacked and braced without the use of nails, wire, or other connectors.
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Historical Marker
This marker stands on U.S. 460 between the Crab Orchard Museum and Witten's Fort.
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Witten's Fort
Located adjacent to the museum, this is a rebuilt version of Witten's Fort - - actually a blockhouse outfitted with gun ports (second story) instead of windows.
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Witten's Fort (2)
View of Witten's Fort showing construction of stone chimney
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Spring house entrance
The spring can be seen in the lower center of the frame
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Lard house - detail
Ladder to loft in lard house
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Lard house - detail (2)
Closeup showing wooden-pegged joint of ladder to loft
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Lard house - detail (3)
View of window showing all-wood construction - - wooden hinges on left, wooden latch on right.