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Kitchen area of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

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Kitchen area of the Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

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The museum is owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth. Built about 1848 on land east of Birdville in Tarrant County, the cabin rose on land that was part of what is now called the Peters Land Grant, a large parcel granted by the Texas Republic to settlers from the South and Midwest. It belonged to Isaac Parker, a close friend of Sam Houston, and Parker's wife, Lucy. Over time, Isaac Parker converted the double log cabin into a spacious home, and the original "dogtrot" cabin was buried beneath sheetrock and clapboards for many years. The underlying cabin was eventually moved to the Log Cabin Village site.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/2014
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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Fort Worth (Tex.)32.72528, -97.32083
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