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On this farm, Martin Brinegar used local trees, rocks, and clay to build a cabin beginning in 1886. Working in his spare time, he took three years to complete the original cabin, which consisted of a main room and a loft. He first gathered stone for the foundation and later for the chimneys, then cut chestnut logs, hewed them by hand on two sides, and notched the ends. With help from neighbors, he stacked the logs to form the walls, chinked them with clay, and covered the roof with oak shakes that he split with a froe. He added clapboard siding on the outside and paneling on the inside to help insulate the cabin from the bitter mountain winds, and he had his own trees cut at a local saw mill into boards for the floors, siding, and paneling. He later added a shed addition, a second smaller room divided into a kitchen with its own fireplace and a bedroom.
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