George Washington Carver was born in a single-room log cabin that Moses Carver originally built for himself and his wife Susan, not as housing for slaves. After the couple moved to a slightly more comfortable log cabin of their own and purchased George's mother Mary, they began calling the first cabin the slave cabin. When raiders took Mary and her second son George away, Moses Carver hired a man to find them. George was returned without his mother, and the Carvers then raised him and his brother Jim. The exact dimensions and location of the cabin have remained uncertain, and attempts to determine them have relied on George's recollections, oral histories of local residents, and archeological investigations.
