Family History Coming Too A End

Hobo,NC

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Sanford, NC
This is the Log Cabin my dad was raised in the roof came off today.
Best I can figure out it was built during the Great depression. There house burnt down so they built this from logs on off there land. I will take a few pix tomorrow of the work they had to do to join the logs...

It was dug behind were I built my shop and live around 1964/65 one of my uncles wanted to build on the spot it set on he did... It was suppose to be set on a foundation wired and water ran to it but it never happen.. It became the family used furniture are what ever storage unit... It will be gone next week and become part of the Rosser land fill...

My grandpal sold a 1/2 acre lot just in front to the left of my house by the road to buy the tin for the roof.l Its inhabited by white trash its time to buy the owner out and tear down there house also :) I have had my fill of Rap and gun fire...

As bad as i hate to see it go I have ran out of room its time to expand I have been working on clearing off a couple acres for 8/10 years and get'N there its time to put my $ back into circulation...

Edit.. the guy run'N the hoe is 82 he dug the house down the hill he don't work long but is a master at run"n the hoe...

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Sad to see a piece of family history like that go, but sometimes
it is just time. My dad sold 20 acres next door to where I live.
I would love to buy that back too.
It was part of what I farmed as a kid, but currently has two rental
trailer units on it with one shared well and septic system and a
bunch of scrub brush. They think that's worth a whole lot more
than I think it's worth, so I patiently wait. Best of luck!
 
That's a shame. But understandable.

My cousin owns the family house now. Built in 1940 after the old house burned down. Granddaddy couldn't afford plumbing, but it was built with electricity. The old house had neither one.
 
I am just finishing the demolition of the house I grew up in. It was built just before WWI and my
grandfather bought the place in 1945 when the widower lost his driver's license and had to move
into town. My grandmother refused to move out of town, so Grandpa put his oldest son (my father)
and his wife in the house to keep it occupied while he tried to run cattle on the cut-over Fir
timberland. The pesky trees grew back and spoiled the pasture, so he got rid of the Herefords.
The trees are less work than the cows.

The place was in bad shape when my folks moved in. They gave up trying to fix it in the early
1970's, and by the time I inherited it, it wasn't practical to repair. I built a new place about
200 feet away and finally found a fellow who wanted to salvage the old lumber. It has taken two
months so far, with at least another week for him and then I will have to fill a drop box with the
landfill stuff. I have been using a 14.000 lb. excavator with a thumb to knock down what they
won't take.

It is kind of sad tearing down your childhood home. It helps that I have lived there all my life
and know it can't be saved.
 
Sorry to see it go, but sometimes it's best to see that than it fall apart. I haven't made it back to my parents house since we sold it years ago.
 
always sad to see them go.
But that area by your shop looks very useful.
Don't feel too bad, up here, snow load would have flattened
it years ago.

as a kid, our fallen down barn (still used some lower rooms for chickens and such) was a great place to play....we thought.
Ma finally got tired of our constant injuries and prayed for lightning I guess... :) .....it burned to the ground.

yer neighbors and Royce's same problem....
make it happen
The land next to me has been for sale 3 times in my life.
always just beyond my means or tight time in my life.
each time it felt like it was too much for what it was.....
first..bare land..second..land with a small garage...third..garage converted to small house..
today....Mansion sitting on the land...very nice neighbors, but still....
heavily regret passing on it all 3 times......
 
Here that metal from the roof would be worth a pretty penny.
The urban crowd likes it for resturaunt walls, apartment walls, awnings and the like.
 
I for one don't like change, so I understand how it must be hard to see that go. You're older than I, and wiser, so you've known this a lot longer than I have - change and entropy are two forces impossible to fight against.

We've got a pioneer log cabin on or farm built of huge hand hewn burr oak logs. When I was little, about 6 years old, my Dad and his brother restored it for my aunt's mother, who is from Georgia. Her Grandma lived in a cabin much like this one. This cabin was built by a Tennessee Capt. in the Federal Army after the war. He and his family fled north and settled in our village after the war. His grandchildren (insert some degree of great) came to visit us a few summers back.

Colin, MN
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Shoot. I'd be happy finding some to make me some kind of cheap shelter for my equipment. Currently have none. Plus the scrappers snatching up every piece they can find ,some of it still being used ! lol
 
This post reminds me of my Grandparent's old house,laid out similar to Colin King's picture. It was built
in 1894 to replace an old house built in 1794,which had been damaged in the War of Yankee
Aggression[Civil War,for you Northerners]. It wasn't a log house,but made from Tulip Poplar,cut down and
taken to a nearby sawmill by My Great-Grandpa and his older sons and his brothers. As a kid,I marveled at
the quality of the construction,and that it had never been painted. The house stood until a couple of
years ago,when someone got tired of using it for hay storage. The wood inside that house would have been
worth a lot,as the walls and ceiling were a tongue and groove board I've never seen in my 40+ years of
Carpentry. Nowadays,people don't appreciate old stuff.
 
Hopefully you can salvage some of the timbers. A lot of stuff built back then was made with American Chestnut.
Could be worth some $$$, or milled into lumber for a keepsake project.
 
(quoted from post at 19:01:29 05/30/15) Do you own the mobil homes across the street, is that your garden over there ?

Nope I do plant my corn over there... The trailers are roach motels and in shambles only low life would live in one of'em... There was one dope dealer that lived in one of'em a year are so ago I complain and she had them evicted.. The only way she could get them out was to have the health department condemn it :)
 

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