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Chittamoo Jean's Trapper's Lodge
Chittamoo Jean's (Chipmunk John) Lodge, circa 1805, is a post-in-sill log cabin, with a bark roof. (The post-in-sill construction is parallel vertical log ends set in the ground, and then horizontal log sides are dropped into the space between them.) The lodge has a bark roof, a jamb stove in the fireplace, and a chimney of river clay and stone. Log timbers support the upper floor and roof. There are Dutch doors in both the loft and the main entrance. The lower floor is dirt.
The log siding is carved from local basswood boards, the bark from saplings from our 15 acres, and the ladder, stove, benches, rope bed and fireplace are handmade by the builder. I also do 1802-1805 fur trade voyageur re-enactments; this lodge represents a free trapper's lodge of that period.
Ralph W (known as Chittamoo Jean the Fur Trader)
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