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uh, my great grandfather migrated and settled into this uh area, and prior to the civil war. He bought three lots of land and they were uh confederate money and uh he build and two of these uh dog trout houses similar to this. And the second one he build around 1870 still exist on the property there, and the log house which is in the picture on this nearest corner is very similar to that house and, and it is still standing there the original wood blocks building that of that hard pine.

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the uh the house still rests on those original blocks many of them there may be one or two of them replaced but theres a second house that my grandfather built then that I was born in uh remember there wasn't any hospitals in that area in that time and uh the mothers had midwives to deliver the babies and I was delivered by a midwife yah

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And uh I lived in this, I was born in this house, lived in it until I was 32 years old and this house burned and both of these houses had the debris way through the center and the purpose I think that our forefathers had in building that house in that style was for coolin and near comfortable in the summer time and of course there was plenty of wood and they had the big fire in the winter time or to warm them in the summer time

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I lived half of my life in this old house its been there 110 years and now its still standing on this

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{Unknown Speaker}
One of the things we're looking at her is the concept of uh tradition in culture but at the same time we're looking at energy and how it's used and how it's saved. Wood as you know breathes, it expands in the summertime it contracts in the winter
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