Who says the suburbs lack history? Just east of me, in downtown Skokie, is a log cabin. It built sometime around 1847 by Swiss immigrants Nicholas and Elizabeth Meyer, using oak and walnut logs from the banks of the Des Plaines River--about five miles to the west.The cabin was moved from its original site near the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Gross Point Road, placed in storage in 1974, and then moved to its present location in 1982.
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That cabin looks so small!
ReplyDeleteIt's a two story cabin. But the Meyers had eight kids.
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