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Family built. Plans $2.00, Materials $1700.00. [ca
1970]
Pleasure
15 years, Priceless.
Crawford County, Missouri. Dillard Post Office. Mark
Twain Natural Forest.
Building our Cabin in the Ozarks: 1969 we bought 40 acres,
adjacent to what is now Mark Twain Forest, in
Crawford County, MO. Near streams that would be
ideal for swimming fishing and canoeing.
After the first winter and spring we began to build
a new cabin.
On weekends we would set a foundation footing or two
and by the latter part of July 1970, we were ready
for setting the flooring & sawing of frame gussets.
My brother in law Don, his wife Rosemarie and their
three sons joined us for the week end.
(Don WHS '50 and Rosemarie WHS '52 )
At
the end of the weekend, we finished the joists,
flooring and one rigid frame was up. Don and
Rosemarie returned to Fort Wayne, IN.
For the next two
VERY HOT AND SUNNY weeks, we rushed to build our
cabin, close it in, and put on roof tar paper. (The
tar paper blew off by the next week end of
course. ) This is when we finished the roof.. Later
we painted and stained the Cabin, brought in the
electric and propane tanks.
For the next 14 years we used the cabin on week ends
and vacations, as much for living
green and close to the earth, as well as having time
together with those we love, in a place we loved.
WE called it "Turtle Run Farm"
It was located near Davisville, a.k.a. Pucky
Huddle, Crawford County, Missouri.
Dillard P. O. In the Mark Twain Natural Forest.
Note: Most
photographs are from Turtle Run Farm,
near Puckey Huddle, MO 1969 -1970
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