This early sawed log farm cabin, dating to about 1890-1900, originally stood in the small hamlet of Manderfield, 5 miles north of Beaver, known as Indian Creek in pioneer days. It is believed by many to have been the birth cabin of Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of modern television, and his uncle Robert Farnsworth is thought to have built it. After Philo's father and two of his mother's brothers purchased 800 acres just north of Robert Farnsworth's homestead in the summer of 1906, it is thought that Philo's family was living with his uncle when he was born on August 19, 1906. For the first three years of his life, his family lived and farmed in the Manderfield area, then left Beaver County and lived for a time in Washington near St. George, then near Vernal in northeastern Utah, and eventually on a farm near Rigby, Idaho. At age 15, while attending school in Rigby, Philo conceived the idea of electronically scanning and transmitting a visual image, an inspiration said to have come while he rode a horse-drawn plow creating parallel rows in a field for spring planting. The thought of dissecting a visual image into parallel horizontal lines, electronically scanning it, and reassembling the original image on a television screen took root there, and he drew the idea on a small piece of paper that he gave to his teacher at Rigby High School. At 21 he was finally able to transmit an image of his wife, Elma. His teacher preserved the paper and later produced it as evidence when Philo's patent was challenged in court by the RCA Corporation, headed by David Sarnoff, and the courts ruled in Philo's favor. Philo T. Farnsworth went on to invent numerous other devices and died March 11, 1971.