The Dickson Log House is a well-preserved example of a late 18th-century log dwelling and represents a common frontier structure in Pennsylvania in the 1790s. One of only a few such buildings preserved in the area north of the Ohio River, it measures 16 by 20 feet and dates to approximately 1796. A 16 by 13 foot stone addition was probably added around 1820, and the door at the rear of the house may have been cut out later. The house originally stood a short distance north of its present location, with its front facing the river. In 1983, after a new owner found it and planned to demolish it, the demolition was halted through the owner's cooperation while local citizens organized the expertise, labor, and money needed to disassemble the log structure and reassemble it on a small subdivision of land not useful to the new owner. Keeping the log house near the river affirms its purpose as a first shelter of new settlers in the wilderness.