Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

General Tipton built a log cabin on Mt.

Today, taller retaining walls are increasingly built as composite gravity walls such as: geosynthetic or steel-reinforced backfill soil with precast facing ; gabions ( stacked steel wire baskets filled with rocks ), crib walls ( cells built up log cabin style from precast concrete or timber and filled with soil or free draining gravel ) or soil-nailed walls ( soil reinforced in place with steel and concrete rods ).

One bright guy — let's call him Galt-Magnon — decides to build a log cabin on an open field, near his crops.

James Knox Polk, the first of ten children, was born on November 2, 1795 in a farmhouse ( possibly a " log " cabin ) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.

He and his small family took over an abandoned log cabin.

The Whigs nominated a war hero in 1840 — and emphasized that William Henry Harrison had given up the high life to live in a log cabin on the frontier.

James Garfield was born the youngest of five children on November 19, 1831, in a log cabin in Orange Township, now Moreland Hills, Ohio.

The house was a log cabin filled with fine furniture and paintings.

The United States presidential election of 1840 saw President Martin Van Buren fight for re-election against an economic depression and a Whig Party unified for the first time behind war hero William Henry Harrison and his " log cabin campaign ".

Then he had the tops of the pines cut, eight feet from the ground, on which he had built a platform and a log cabin to serve as a temporary quarters while the mansion was being built.

While the city was being built he lived in a three-room log cabin with Catherine, where she did the cooking and caring for the children, and he tended a garden as though they were an ordinary couple.

He and his wife lived in a log cabin they had salvaged from his plantation.

Instead they proposed a simple log cabin shrine.

According to Hall, after his father was banned from working in the mines for joining an IWW strike, the family grew up in near starvation in a log cabin built by Halberg.

The Swedes and Finns brought their log house design to America, where it became the typical log cabin of pioneers.

Imprisoned by him on his aeroplane, she eventually agrees to marry him, and which point he abducts her and takes her to a remote log cabin where he imposes domestic duties on her.

After selling much of his farm to the Ellicotts and others, he died in his log cabin nine years later on October 9, 1806, exactly one month before his 75th birthday.

Squire Boone's parents, George and Mary Boone, followed their son to Pennsylvania in 1717, and in 1720 built a log cabin at Boonecroft.

There they built a log cabin, partially preserved today as the Daniel Boone Homestead.

Champion was besieged inside the log cabin.

Wayne was born on January 1, 1745, in a log cabin on his family's Waynesborough estate, in Paoli, Pennsylvania.

Wright built a log cabin nearby on a tract of land first granted to George Beale by William Penn in 1699, and stayed for more than a year.

There are named variations, based on the placement of log cabin blocks.

The first election was held in the fall of 1859, in an old log saloon near Lockhart ’ s ferry, at which time Wm.

A troop of students dressed as Continental Army soldiers carry the eponymous log from the sun-dial to the lounge of John Jay Hall, where it is lit amid the singing of seasonal carols.

* Uncommon Valour ( 2005 ) by John Stevens, the story of two naval officers in 1779, is primarily written in the form of diary and log extracts.

They purchased a farm near Bel Air in Harford County, Maryland, where John Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children.

John Hunt, in 1805, decided to migrate to the area and built a small log cabin in the woods near the river.

It was settled in 1874 by Captain John Rich, who built a log cabin.

Chief John Ross ' log cabin home is still located in the city and can be occasionally visited.

Back in Ottawa, word spread of the undeveloped land, and in the spring of 1835, John Sebree built a log house.

The next year he moved his stock of goods into a log building erected by John C. Crozier, which was situated on the ground now occupied by Henry O ' Harra's lumber yard.

Edward Miller established the first general store in a log building and William Wynkoop built the first hotel ; other early businesses included Hiram Dougherty's cabinet shop, James Hollcraft's bar, John Heffner's blacksmith shop, Columbus Kemp's tannery and M. Z. Saylor ( physician ).

Wesley and his family decided to remain there, while John and family decided to cross the Pearl River, and built a log cabin on the west bank, just a little further south.

VICKERS ' MILL: In 1831, John Vickers built a brush dam over the eight-foot waterfall on Portage Creek and erected a log grist mill.

John Cutler, who came here from New York State with his wife and ten children, bought in 1853 and built a log cabin.

John W. T. Gardner, Fort Crook consisted of 25-30 log buildings enclosed by a pine-pole stockade, later the outpost was renamed in honor of Lt. George Crook, then in command of Company D, 4th Infantry.

It was originally called St. John Meyer's Settlement and was the site of the Spanish log fort, San Juan del Misuri ( 1796 – 1803 ).

The city is named for its first settler, North Carolina frontiersman John Weldon, who in 1790 built a log home overlooking the spring which bears his name.

The first known settlers on the " West Lyman " portion of Lyman were John Hyndman ( also, " John Hinman "), with his wife and son, who settled on the largest of the Deer Islands ( below the present-day Barnet Bridge ) in 1784 and built a log cabin.

Some of its first settlers were John Downer, a cabinet-maker ; Eliphalet Downer, hatter ; William Bryan and Joseph Marshall, blacksmiths, and James Duff, weaver ; they all lived in log houses.

John McKee, an original settler of Philadelphia and son of David McKee, built a log cabin near the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers, the site of present-day McKeesport.

The property, on the south bank of Turtle Creek, was passed to James ' sons Henry and John Walls, who lived in a log cabin near the heart of present-day Wall.

John Morton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence, was born and raised in a log cabin adjacent to East Ridley Avenue.

During the land purchase of 1755 James Sterrat of Carlisle purchased 400 acres including the sleeping place called John Hart ’ s log on the Juniata River, which is now Alexandria.

The day-long event recognizes the early days of the small borough, when, in 1744, a licensed Indian trader named John Hart used a large hollowed-out log to feed and salt his horses while he conducted his trading.

Old Town of HillsboroHillsboro AcademyHillsboro was named for pioneer John ( Richard ) Hill, from North Carolina, who built a log cabin near what is now Lobelia.