Hand-hewer Stephen Smith, pictured here with his broad ax, recently spoke at an event put on by the Cumberland Historical Society. Eloise Goldsmith / The Forecaster Six years ago, Stephen Smith of ...

Courtesy of Chris Brown To step inside George Jutras’ cabin is to step back in time nearly a century. On the wall, the calendar always reads 1935 — the year the cabin was built. The hand-hewn log ...

One hundred and ten original logs survived from the first Protestant Church west of the Mississippi River, Old Bethel Baptist Church. "From these hand hewn poplar logs many people came together and ...

FAIRBANKS TOWNSHIP -- For 100 years, the residents of this corner of St. Louis County have danced, voted, governed, mourned, performed and celebrated inside the hand-hewn log walls of Petrell Hall.

Pioneer settlers of Arkansas found a great richness of timber. Among the tough hardwoods were 29 oak species, with white and red oaks being particularly abundant, along with 10 species of hickory, not ...

More than a mile into the Great Smoky Mountains wilderness stands a 158-year-old log cabin built around 1857. Once home to a mountain family until the 1930s, this primitive structure was sealed with ...

WILDER — The hand-hewn logs of the Wartzenluft homestead help tell the story of a father and son who left Illinois for the rugged Missouri Breaks during Montana's homestead boom. And these days the ...

Authentic hand-hewn log homes that date back to the 1800s are few and far between in northern Illinois. Those that might have been built in this area back then have long since been torn down and ...