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Goodrich-Landow Log Cabin
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The Goodrich-Landow Log Cabin is a genuine log cabin built by the Levi Goodrich family circa 1825, the best surviving local example of the type erected by early settlers from New England. It stood for 165 years on Goodrich Road after Levi Goodrich, born in Hadley, Massachusetts, in 1774, settled in Clarence in 1815. A land surveyor and patriarch of a large family, Goodrich laid out several major roads in Clarence, including the one named for him. In 1836 the entire Goodrich family left Clarence and relocated to Michigan. The cabin later became the Landow log home on the east side of Goodrich Road north of Lapp Road in the Town of Clarence, and its last residents were the family of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Landrow, prominent members of the German settlement in north Clarence. The building was incorporated into the farmhouse of the Landrow family's large and prosperous farm. Moved in 1990 and restored, the cabin was oriented to the compass points as on its original site. Its whitewashed, saddle-notched, round log construction includes a stone chimney back projecting through the north wall, chinking mortar restored with local clay, sand, and animal hair, interior hewn log walls whitewashed with natural lime, and a beaded wide-board partition wall in front of the restored fireplace and bake oven that survives as a rare original feature.
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