Butler Dogtrot Cabin

In the 1880s, settlers in North Mississippi built homes by cutting, hewing, and stacking logs with the help of family and friends. A dogtrot cabin began as one room, and as a family became settled and grew, another room was built a few feet away. A roof connected the two, forming a passageway that gave this cabin style the names dogtrot, possumtrot, or two pens and a passage. One room was used for cooking and one for sleeping. More than 130 years later, the Corps of Engineers moved this cabin from an area to be flooded by Bay Springs Lake and rebuilt it here, preserving a home that had lasted for over a century and reflected the quiet dignity of pioneer family life.

Mississippi · United States