![]() ![]() Weslager, whose book on log cabins is considered a classic, the Finns, as well as the Swedes, had a “close attunement” with the forests, and both groups had well-developed forest industries. Though log building was no longer necessary, nostalgia kept it alive.Īccording to C. ![]() Over the next 75 years, Swedes and Finns did the majority of log building on the eastern seaboard, but wilderness eventually gave way to technology. Using only axes, they could raise a suitable cabin in a single day: a decisive advantage in the hostile environment of an unsettled land. Approximately two decades after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Swedish and Finnish immigrants brought European log building technique to America, settling the area we now call Delaware in 1638. Because of careful design and excellent craftsmanship, these structures have endured the elements for hundreds of years and stand today as testimony to the longevity of logs as a building material. These regions had vast stands of softwood timber that could easily be worked with simple hand tools. By the time Europeans began to settle in America, there was a long tradition of using logs for houses, barns, and other outbuildings in the Scandinavian countries, Germany, and Northern Russia. The exact origin of log building is lost, but archaeologists have suggested it started with the Scandinavians and northern Russians during the Bronze Age (c. By June Pelo, sourced from internet articles.
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