Burnsville Historical Society meeting

Want to experience living in a log cabin?

Larry, 67, knows about log cabin living because he owns his
family’s 1867 log cabin. He has lovingly restored it.

“In 2002, our family began building and restoring log cabins and
dugouts like those constructed by this area's ancestors. We have seven
cabins/homes and a dugout. Our oldest is an 1867 home built by our
great-grandfather. The talk involves the move to the area
and what it took to pick up and head off into the wild, what the first
challenges were and the swift construction it took to get sheltered by winter,” said Kortuem.

When European settlers came to Burnsville (and the entire Minnesota River Valley)
in the mid-1850s they aspired to live in a log cabin. Some, like James Connelly
of Burnsville,
constructed a hybrid shelter, partly dug into the earth and partly constructed
of logs. Here the family lived for 13 years.

 So, come
hear about Larry’s log cabin. If you have experience
around log cabins, please come and share your stories with us, too!

 For directions to the meeting, go to http://190riverridge.com.