This cabin, the birthplace of The Berry Schools, now Berry College and Berry Academy, was built as a playhouse for Martha Berry and her brothers and sisters shortly after the Civil War. Here, in the late 1800’s, three small boys from Lavendar Mountain received Martha Berry’s first Sunday School lesson. Word of her kindness and interest spread, and soon the cabin was overflowing with people. From this modest beginning, the work grew to a day school at Possum Trot, then a boarding school, and finally a college. Though the cabin was outgrown, it was not forgotten, and Martha Berry chose it to represent simplicity on the school seal, along with the Bible for religion, the lamp for learning, and the plow for work. On this foundation she built a world renowned educational institution extensively copied in the U.S. and abroad.