Hidden deep in the forests of West Virginia, an explorer stepped inside an abandoned log cabin believed to date back to the 1700s. After climbing through a window, he discovered hand-hewn logs, ...

Somebody in southern Illinois once looked at a pile of old hand-hewn logs and saw a whole pioneer town waiting to be rebuilt.

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 ...

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 ...