Will your cabin be in a museum someday?

Started by Pox Eclipse, July 14, 2008, 04:02:55 PM

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Build it right, and maybe someday it will be of historical interest:

1930's trapper's cabin restored at Alaska museum
Quote"The project was to dismantle Abe Erikson's trapline cabin and move it to the Kasilof Regional Historical Association museum grounds," said Gary Titus, KNWR historian and cabin manager.

Erikson maintained a large fox farm operation in the Kasilof area around the 1930s, and he had several structures associated with the operation, including a large 13-by-30 foot log cabin, which was moved to KRHA museum a three years ago for restoration.

"We just finished it last winter," Titus said.

The most recent Erikson structure moved between June 30 and July 3 was a small, 9-by-10 foot, trapper cabin that has, for several decades, resided in the "Slackwater" area, just down stream from the boat launch at the end of Tustumena Lake Road.

"It's very unique because it was built out of old fish trap timbers, as opposed to log. It's the only one I know of that's made this way," Titus said.