Crab Orchard Museum
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Pioneer Park - - Crab Orchard Museum grounds
Blacksmith shop in center of view
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Pioneer Park at Crab Orchard Museum
View of farmstead
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Crab Orchard Museum grounds
On the left, Maj. David Peery Cabin (1805); on the right, Daniel-Murray Homestead (1872)
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Maj. David Peery Cabin
Built about 1805, this is a one-room cabin with a sleeping loft above - - and note the size of the stone chimney.
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - door
Nice wrought-iron strap hinges
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - detail of floor
Original flooring still shows marks from hand-cutting with an adze
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - fireplace
The fireplace provided heat and a place to cook
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - hearth
Detail view showing limestone hearth
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - sleeping corner
Located across the room from the fireplace
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Maj. David Peery Cabin
Herbs hung to dry
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Maj. David Peery Cabin - candleholder & mold
The candleholder and mold are made of tinplate, favored on the frontier for durability
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Granary
Millstone leaning against the building for decoration
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Encampment 2009 (1)
Rustic cooking - - a spit, a grill, and two Dutch ovens
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Dr. Jack W. Witten Cabin
Originally located in North Tazewell on the family property where Dr. Witten lived in a brick house, this cabin was donated to Crab Orchard Museum to honor Dr. Witten.
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Dr. Jack W. Witten Cabin (2)
Jack Walter Witten (1880-1959) graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1905, served in the U.S. Army in WWI, represented Tazewell County in the Virginia General Assembly for 24 years, and provided a home and education for more than 150 foster sons.
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Barn
Timber frame with board-and-batten siding
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Barn doors
View of barn showing crossbuck doors
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Encampment 2009 (2)
Cooking gear includes a tripod, grate, coffee pot, Dutch ovens and more
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Pioneer Park scene
View of smoke house (left) and spring house (right)
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Spring house
The spring house was disassembled and moved from its original location to a limestone spring on the Pioneer Park grounds
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Spring House (2)
Reverse angle showing stonework; note millstone leaning against the building for decoration
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Spring creek
The spring at the spring house flows into this creek, which runs through the Pioneer Park grounds
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Smoke house
Side view showing log construction
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Smoke house door
Long wrought-iron strap hinges
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Apple house
This stone building was moved from Thompson Valley
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Apple house - detail
The stones used to build the apple house included fossil rocks, like this one; the fossils are sea creatures which lived 200 million and more years ago, when the land here was much, much lower!
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Apple house - detail (2)
This also is an ancient fossil stone
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Loom house
Front view of loom house. Construction details include fieldstone foundation, squared and notched logs, cedar shakes.
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Loom house steps
These steps were cut from limestone
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Loom house detail
This view shows how the logs were notched and fit on the corners. Also visible (upper left) are the round purlins on which roofing boards, and then shingles, were nailed.
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Loom house - window
Detail of window construction; the panes are small - - glass was expensive on the frontier - - and wooden pegs were used in both the frame and the window - - nails were expensive, too.
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Loom house interior
The spinning wheel is still used to spin wool at Museum events
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Loom house interior (2)
This view shows the loom, with fireplace in the background.
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Blacksmith's shop
side view showing log construction
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Blacksmith's shop - - front
This structure was made primarily with undressed (round) logs.
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Blacksmith's shop - - interior
Hearth is to the left, tools hang on the wall, anvil is in the foreground (covered with leather apron), and half-barrel holds water for quenching.
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Carpenter's shop and cobbler's shop
These two buildings are joined by a "dogtrot."
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Carpenter's shop and cobbler's shop (2)
The "dogtrot" is open on both sides and the shop doors face each other.
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Carpenter's shop - - interior
View showing many tools
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Cobbler's shop
View of entry
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Cobbler's shop - - steps
Since the entry is under cover, the steps are hewn timbers.
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Cobbler's shop - - interior (1)
Selection of cobbler's lasts on bench
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Cobbler's shop - - interior (2)
View showing workbench and tools
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Encampment 2009 (3)
Okay, a teepee is not authentic for these parts, but it's a nice teepee and fun to look over.
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Daniel-Murray homestead
Front view. Built in 1872, this is a relatively young structure; at one time it was used as an inn.
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Daniel-Murray homestead (2)
View of rear of the structure. The windows are much larger than those of the early settler's cabins, and the building has two back doors.
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Daniel-Murray homestead, side view
This view shows the fieldstone chimney and the notched-timber construction. At one time this structure has been painted red, probably with red lead-and-iron barn paint; most of the paint has weathered away but the color is still visible in the end-grain of the logs.
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - chimney detail
This view shows some of the stones used to construct the chimney.
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - interior (1)
Note the square-cut rafters and massive logs. White pine and poplar often were used for framing logs; chestnut was cut into timbers and cedar was used to make roofing shingles.
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - interior (2)
Fireplace features a huge limestone lintel
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - interior (3)
View from entry looking at back wall and one of the back doors
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - interior (4)
Detail of back door showing wrought-iron strap hinges
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Daniel-Murray homestead - - interior (5)
View of window; the windows in this house have 3 times the panes of the windows in the older cabins.
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Encampment 2009 (3)
Teepee to the left, somewhat more authentic tent to the right
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Encampment 2009 (4)
Cooking with iron - - this collection includes a spit, a griddle, Dutch ovens, a grill, and a coffee pot, as well as wrought-iron utensils and hooks.