William Bloomfield “Bloom” Rumfelt and his wife, Louise, raised 10 children in a log house built during the 1880s on a 40-acre farm near present-day U.S. 221 and Mud Cut Road, south of Marion, North Carolina. After the Rumfelts moved to Shelby, North Carolina, they gave the home to one of their daughters and her husband. The government later seized the property for back taxes, and John L. Mosteller bought it for $500. One of the Mostellers’ daughters, Alma, married James Daniel Morgan, and they raised two children in the house after it had been significantly enlarged. In the late 1970s, Mountain Gateway Museum & Heritage Center acquired the house from the Morgan family, disassembled the original log section, moved it piecemeal, and reconstructed it on this spot. The 19-by-26-foot cabin was built of pine logs joined with half-dovetail notches typical of German construction and arranged in a “Lucky 13” configuration of 13 logs, 13 beams, and 13 joists, reflecting an Appalachian belief that this would bring good luck.