The Log Cabin

The house I live at here in Provo was built a long time ago. We estimate that it was built in the 1980's. We think that it was built in sections. The oldest section is actually a log cabin. If you go around the back of the house you can see the old logs that were shaved and linked together.

Last year ben, one of my roommates, was down in the basement (It is actually a small celler with pipes and our furnace) but he found a whole that had been nocked into into the wall. Well we looked under the whole and found that it leads under all the floors of the entire house. I guess all the floors are raised about two feet off the ground or so and so there is a little crawl space that you can fit. We explored underneath all the rooms. Since then we have began leading groups of people under the house on little tours.

The first time we went under the log cabin we found some pretty cool treasures. We found a couple of really old newspapers dated from 1906 and 1908. We also found a mail envolope with the old mail still inside. It turned out to be junk mail from 1908. We carefully opened the envolope and found the mail inside in pretty decent condition. It was a "New York Taylors Mens Spring and Summer Dress Catalog" It was a pretty cool find. It had price listings and even sample fabric inside that you could feel and touch. Pretty cool.

One of the neatest things about the envolope was that the address was still readable. So we knew that it was addressed to our house because it had our address on it and so we knew that the name of the person on the envolope had once lived here. The name we found was James R. Hooks. We did a little geneology work and found out that he was probably the builder of the log cabin and died in 1930. We also found out that he was buried in the the Provo Cemetary. Which was just down the street. So one afternoon me and my roommates went to the cemetary and looked around and found his tombstone. We didn't know what to say other than, "thanks for building the house."