What Life was Like Living in a Log Cabin from the 1870's

Go on tour with us at the Lewis Log Cabin and discover what life was like back in the late 1800's. What did people use for toilet paper? Learn about how the cabin was originally built and moved to the Barberville Pioneer Settlement.
Great information for teachers and parents to share with their children.

[@annmargaret6992]

This was just wonderful. Please do more! I am 98 yrs old and I would like to see more. I was raised in a Victorian house in upstate New York. We had 4 bedrooms a full kitchen and by 1920 my father had a bathroom put in on the main floor. Our house was not like this one,but this house was a home and that's what counts, family and Love!

[@normanjenna1]

James and Mary Lewis were my great great grand.parents. I have a piece of log from the original posts on the porch.

[@potatoe5746]

:oo

[@princesstiarra8071]

I hope you also have a collection of wonderfull stories passed down a out the cabin. I bet he wished all his children and grandchildren to stay on the land for many years to come. I've always wondered what a cabin was like and now I know a big thankyou to all.

[@normanjenna1]

@@princesstiarra8071 One large part of the property still is in the Brooks family. It is kinda in the middle of now here , so it isn`t used much. I think it is rented out to farm.

[@timeforchange3786]

Thanks for sharing your family's cabin for all to see

[@deepaksahay1491]

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[@patriot9455]

My wife grew up on a farm, her father sold dairy, among other things. He kept his milk cool in a cold stream because the dairy came every other day. She has told me much about farm life when she was young. I respect the people who lived in the pre electronic tech age. Not many of us alive today would have survived well or long under those conditions.

[@deepaksahay1491]

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[@asdf9890]

Built by a 22 year old....what are most 22 year olds doing with their lives these days? And this isn't an "ok boomer" statement, I was 22 in the '90's and I definitely wasn't building my life up with log homes. I was partying and pretty much that's it. On a positive note, I have a cabin on my property that I'm restoring and this gave me some insight on how it was used.

[@DesiraeJ]

I feel joyful looking back in time. Wish to go back.

[@MichaelMike-ob2gb]

Where would you go back to?

[@sharonjacobs5351]

Very nice job with the impression you portray . Lots of information spectators would be interested in . May I add to your information ? Toilet wipeing was very often done with the hand . The left hand . This is documented and was done that way for centuries , and is still done in some impoverished countries to this day . This was the reason for shaking someone hand with the right hand . Aprons of white were rare . They showed dirt too easily . They were generally made of fabric from worn out clothing . What a wonder job was done with preservation of this historic building . Great job everyone . I do a mid 1800's impression so I am very familiar with many of the articles and facts you referred to . Again thank you for preserving this bit of history . . . . 💐

[@timeforchange3786]

I have always heard people used corncobs. I wonder if they would dry them and slice one side to flatten it

[@dwaynes965]

Thank you for your knowledge. Everyday I learn something new.

[@sergylicious1985]

Great videos for learning those kind of things, greetings from México 😃

[@williamchristopher1560]

Im 74, and my first job was to go down to the corn crib after grandad had shelled the corn for the chickens, to find around a doz or so soft fresh cobs and bring them up to the outhouse. Ive used them many times in the early 50s. They were soft and somewhat fluffy, and if you were using the last one, and your c..p was firm, u could turn it 1/2 round for a 2nd swipe

[@karenbartlett1307]

Fireplaces don't give off a lot of heat, and in winter the wood in woodstoves or cook stoves would burn nearly out at night. One banked the fire to have some coals left in the morning The cabins would be very cold in the morning. Generally the oldest boy would be up at 3 or 4 am to build a fire. (My parents grew up in 1930's Missouri and lived almost like this.)

[@timeforchange3786]

Probably a lot colder in Missouri than Georgia or Florida

[@karenbartlett1307]

@@timeforchange3786 Well, in winter in Florida native people consider it to be cold. And sometimes it freezes. I lived there for 20 years and at 50 degrees everybody wore their winter coats. So it's relative. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5OacnaLmLqmfq8

[@zeenasworld]

Thanks for your dedication and for sharing for all of us.

[@stevieray7203]

I would love to get the care of animals such as chickens and how the feeding, sickness, etc was handled!

[@guitarstevie2]

Thank you for the interesting video. A word of advise, should you film another: Film in the traditional "landscape" orientation, with the camera turned horizontally.

[@maryfarwell-uragallo2373]

You all did a wonderful job putting this to video, thank you. I love what I learned!

[@barbervillesettlement]

Awe thanks Mary!

[@user-jh6jh9fh7o]

Enjoyed the history,thanks so much

[@colmdominic1]

Fascinating…Love from Scotland ❤️

[@jacobcox4276]

The main speaker should have said and then there was Maude. Awesome video.

[@kathleensanderson3082]

My grandmother, born in 1913, said they used rags for TP. They kept a bucket in the outhouse for the used rags, and washed them weekly when they did laundry.

[@mapleviewfarm1]

Enjoyed the video!

[@GenerationX3333]

Thanks so much- I love your videos about history

[@michaelkurz9067]

Feathers were actually used for bedding and pillows

[@danielkarcher9574]

Very educational video. Thank you

[@donnahannahs3916]

Thank you for educational history…….

[@richardliles4415]

That was a fun video. Thank you.

[@cindyrissal3628]

I understand the lack of real window glass, but it strikes me as funny that they were so pleased w/ the cedar boards for "chinking" bc they repelled bugs, but there's this great big, wide open hole in the wall... Mom told me that Mullen weed (sp?) made good TP...😉

[@lifewithlindsey1920]

Great video

[@deplorablecovfefe9489]

Its just like little house on the prairie..

[@eanerickson998]

This is really interesting

[@bonniem3754]

12 kids and 2 adults in one room? How did the parents ever find any privacy to make those babies?

[@johnfd0210]

This is fairly luxurious compared to some of the log cabins I have seen. The cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born (actually a replica) is smaller, and has a dirt floor; one window with no glass in it. I have wondered the same of you, but felt it wasn't something I wanted to ask one of the docents at the site.

[@lcvt8023]

11 kids in a 1 room cabin! good thing kids weren't allowed to talk back then. could have got a little noisy.

[@jjdjj5392]

What do they have for the roof?

[@Tuffiti3487]

i live in a 1860 house with like a 200 year old stove

[@abou8963]

The fireplace is on which directional side? N, S, E, W

[@NOK2014_Corfu_Activities]

Great cabin. Need better resolutuon please!

[@hoedaart3826]

Wow beauty full amazing

[@pattycake8272]

I'm sure it went from the cleanest to the dirtiest when washing up.

[@jklynb]

How in the world did they sleep outside with mosquitoes ? Surely they had some sort of plant that kept mosquitoes away ?

[@cklg88]

You need video editing to change the size of your video to fit on KZbin screen.

[@wheelieblind]

240P?? this ladies old phone should of got at least 480P. By 1870 they had other tools for making butter so that they had a small triangle tool that they could push with their foot.

[@terrisebring1151]

How big is the house?

[@mj9412]

Thus the kitchen fires maybe from being distracted.

[@donttread5414]

1:01 closed the video here

[@danielattias1525]

Amazing, why don't we live like that anymore, we'll be a lot closer to one another.

[@katinawhitley9340]

Very small and crampy and the beds were hard as hell..

[@kingskountry1246]

Shucks, no real buttermilk. It's been decades since I had fresh churned butter on homemade bread and a big glass of buttermilk or even milk fresh out of the cow with cream floating on top.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Thanks for bringing up the MASK thing.. as everyone knows Wearing a MASK was in integral part of life in the EIGHTEEN SEVENTIES.

[@rodneyashford1464]

1:30. Oops

[@FynnOliverEmonSill]

Much like something I recently learned. SOME people have a peanut butter knife in their bathroom.....(learned on TikTok)...apparently common in American Households today.

[@GinaLB1967]

Actually not common at all here in America these days.

[@FynnOliverEmonSill]

@@GinaLB1967 Common enough that a lot of people know exactly what it is.

[@mimosa27]

It sounds like a miserable existence? All hard work, and zero pleasure or leisure. Humans are meant to experience joy and pleasure, even a little. Otherwise they break. How did these people not break?

[@ricosuave5120]

Ever gone days without food? Just surviving was probably pretty satisfying. But remember once the winters came, it would get dark very early and they would sew, read books, play music, sing, tell stories, etc. They also probably went to picnics after church services in the warmer weather. Was it terribly hard? Yes. But, people also enjoyed the company of each other more than we do today. You might read a book by the Delaney Sisters who wrote about their lives, they were around a 100 years old, I believe.

[@sofiabravo1994]

There’s more to life than instant gratification. People had joy but it wasn’t a high they relied upon like we do nowadays. Fulfillment and contentment was built not expected, in our modern day life more people are depressed…yet we live a million times more comfortable and live much longer…

[@mimosa27]

@@sofiabravo1994 People are depressed because capitalism is soul poison - pitting us against one another and destroying this planet. And I wasn't talking about instant gratification. I mean simple pleasure, which humans can't live without. We constantly have to find ways to relieve stress to survive.

[@Sabbathissaturday]

See how busy children used to be? No need for ADD medication! Wake up people.

[@jjdjj5392]

I never knew about a "birthing chair" it sure doesnt look comfortable to give birth in.

[@GranMastaDee]

vertical video is so sensless.

[@jimb3093]

When did they have time to make babies? Lol!

[@gailcurl8663]

Males Always find time to Breed!!

[@princesstiarra8071]

Probably on winter nights to warm up a bit before sleeping.

[@mimosa27]

@@princesstiarra8071 In front of all the kids??

[@earthmama9597]

The woman said that the kids slept in the loft and parents downstairs.

[@zealandzen]

get to the point