A two-century-old log cabin preserved in a Moon Township park. The Moon Township Historical Society gives us its history: it was built about twelve miles from here in 1825 for John Coventry, a Revolutionary War veteran who would already have been fairly old when he built this house. It was inhabited until the later twentieth century, but by the middle 1970s it was abandoned. It was carefully taken apart, with every piece labeled, and reassembled here in Robin Hill Park on the grounds of the old Nimick mansion (about which more soon).
Note the tool marks on the stone slabs used as steps. Barry Fell would probably have read them as Celtic inscriptions.
A lot of care went into shaping the logs to lock together at the corners.
The chimney is made of irregular local stones skillfully arranged.
You may have noticed this tombstone in front of the cabin if you were looking at the pictures above closely. Father Pitt does not know its story—whether it was moved here with the cabin, or whether it was here before the cabin was reconstructed. Perhaps someone from the Historical Society can enlighten us. The inscription is quite legible in spite of a few missing letters:
HENRY ATEN
DIED
APRIL 11, 1877,
AGED 63 YEARS,
6 MOS. & 16 DA[YS.]
[Ble]ssed are the dead who die in the
[Lo]rd, for they rest from their labors
[a]nd their works do follow them.
Cameras: Sony Alpha 3000; Kodak EasyShare Z1285.
