Built around 1840, this cabin housed enslaved and free African Americans both before and after the Civil War and has remained in continuous use ever since. More than two dozen cabins once stood on the property, but this is the only one that survives. Originally painted blue, the 12' × 8' one-room cabin has a loft, clapboard siding, and an open hearth. In the late 19th century, Logan Anderson, the overseer employed by College founder Indiana Fletcher Williams, lived here, and it later became the home of Sterling Jones, his wife Aurelia, and some of their children; Sterling and his father Daniel made bricks for the College buildings. By 1930 the cabin had been modernized with running water and electricity and served as the first headquarters of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association. It was later used as a classroom, a meditation chapel, a student clubhouse, and a museum displaying farm tools related to the College's agricultural past, and today it contains an exhibition about African-American families who lived and worked at Sweet Briar.