Swedish Log Cabin

Built about 1838 on "Govalle" ("good grazing land in Swedish"). Ranch of S.M. Swenson, settler who encouraged migration of his countrymen to Texas as a copy of cabins built 1638 by Swedish colonists in Delaware.

Home, 1848, of newly arrived Gustaf ...

Swedish Cabin

Hancock House Historic Site

This single-room cabin is a rare remaining example of hand-hewn, white cedar plank construction and reflects a traditional Swedish cabin. This cabin, with its glazed windows, is more elaborate than those typically constructed in the seventeenth-century.

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