George Washington Carver's Birthplace
The cabin site offers an impression of the slave cabin in which Carver was born. Its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.
The log cabin in which George Washington Carver was born was not built with the intention of housing slaves. Moses Carver originally built the single room log cabin for himself and his wife Susan. The couple did not call it the "slave cabin" until they moved to a slightly more comfortable log cabin of their own and purchased George's mother Mary. When she and her second son George were taken away by raiders, Moses Carver hired a man to find them. After George was returned without his mother, the Carvers raised him and his brother Jim. Historians and archeologists used George's recollections, oral histories of local residents, and archeological investigations in an attempt to determine the dimensions and location of the cabin.
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