Unusual home American settlers of the XIX century

• Unusual dwelling American settlers of the XIX century

Mastering the wild territory of the North-West - an exciting time in American history of the XIX century. Then people felt themselves almost daily for strength: fighting with giants, trees, predatory animals and with nature itself. And they sometimes had to live not in ordinary homes, and most of these stumps.

North Cascade Mountain National Forest Okanogan.

In the XIX century, many people rushed to settle in the north-west of the country. This wild area reminiscent of the Siberian taiga. Here settlers clashed with the old dense forest, where there was virtually no free land plots. At the same time, the settlers could not build houses because of the monopoly of the large logging companies to the entire timber.

The technology of cutting of huge trees.

The stumps of trees felled more than a century ago. Rattlesnake Lake, Washington.

After cutting down ancient forests in those regions were huge wasteland, "studded with" 3-meter stumps sequoias and cedars. Loggers threw them, considering useless. After the wood in the bottom of the tree, from the roots, changing its structure and quickly deteriorates.

Cedar stump adapted under the house. 1901.

The people inside hollowed cedar stump 6 meters in diameter and made them secure housing.

three bedroom house made of hemp. Mount Pleasant (Mount Pleasant), British Columbia, Canada.

The house in a tree stump. Pacific County, Washington. The area previously occupied by forests, become suitable for agriculture, if not one "but": the very stumps. Whether it's small hemp, they are uprooted or burnt. And in the case of the 3-foot giants on it would have taken years of hard labor. The settlers had to adapt to difficult conditions.

The house in a tree stump.

The house in a tree stump. Clallam Bay (Clallam Bay), Western Washington.

In such a house is quite possible to survive the harsh winter.

The family Lennstrom living in a tree stump. Edgecombe (Edgecomb), Washington, 1901.

People in the most unexpected way to accommodate the large stumps to fit your needs - they have to live in them! The inner part hollowed out or burned, so that sufficient wall thickness remained. The top covered with a roof. Alleged pioneers in choosing an unusual dwelling became McAllister family lived in the house from the stump in 1847. In the future, they fashioned a traditional housing, but "lived-in" steel stump used as a barn. There they hid their chickens and livestock from bears, bobcats and raccoons.

The house in a tree stump. Pacific County, Washington.

Another interesting story is connected with William D. MacDonald (William D. McDonald). In 1892, an enterprising businessman was able to even open the present post office in cedar stump.

Land Pacific Highway, paved through the 6-foot red cedar stump, 1920.