Michigan Cabins

Nearly 100 Michigan cabins are included in the early summertime Michigan Log Cabin Day self guided tour.

In every county there are many more to rent or explore. Here are some that are not apart of the tour, but well worth visiting:

Barry County Michigan Cabin - You should see the Historic Bowens Mills near Gun Lake and the Yankee Springs State Park! The Fork River Free Trappers, a group of authentic Mountain Men & Trapper living history reenactors have built a replica trappers cabin there. They also put on the Historic Bowens Mills Mountain Men & Colonial Encampment featuring the Fork River Trading Post in early October. http://www.bowensmills.com/

Cheboygan Michigan Cabin - This Michigan log cabin was built in the mid 1800’s and is one of three remaining cabins left when the Cheboygan County Sheriff dispatched deputies in 1900 to foreclose on property for unpaid taxes. The cabins were part of a Native American village on Burt Lake built in the late 1800’s. http://cheboyganmuseum.com/log-cabin.HTML

Lake City Cabin Michigan - About an hour north of Grand Rapids you can visit the Missaukee County Museum and Historical Site which includes a display inside a two story log cabin. The site has good pictures. http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/missaukee/histsoc.htm

Ontonagon County - Near Rockland you can see the hand-hewn log cabins built nearly 100 years ago to serve as housing for the miners at the Victoria Copper Mine. If you like woodstoves, you will love the pictures on this site! http://www.ontonagonmi.com/oldvictoria.html

Sturgeon Point - Built of Norway Pine in 1907, this Michigan log cabin schoolhouse is still furnished with items of that period - a recitation bench, teacher and students’ desks, drinking pail and dipper, and a wood stove for heat. The school bell still sits atop the roof. The schoolhouse was moved near the Sturgeon Point lighthouse in the north eastern part of the lower peninsula just north of Harrisville. http://www.huronshoreschamber.com/attractions.htm

Shiawassee County Cabin Michigan - This one room structure was built in Owosso for a man named Comstock in the mid-1830s. Though the cabin has been moved three times (the last in 1969), the original logs are still intact. http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/L0773.htm
AND http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/comstock.html

Grand Traverse County - The Old Mission Point Lighthouse Park in Old Peninsula Township has a preserved Michigan log cabin. In 1854, Joseph and Mary Hesler built the house of hand hewn pine and hemlock logs. http://www.michmarkers.com/Pages/L2059.htm

Sanilac Michigan Cabin - This Historic Village has eight historic buildings on a 10 acres, including a country doctor’s 20-room Victorian mansion, general store, the 157-year-old Huckins One-room Schoolhouse, the 1883 Banner Pioneer Log Cabin, and what is probably the state’s last remaining historic Barn Theater. You can also see some extensive Victorian gardens, a marine shipwreck room, a separate dairy industry museum, plus old-time carriages, military and native American exhibits. The cabin was quickly built as a replacement home for the Henry Patten family, who lost their entire homestead in a tragic fire. Logs that survived the fire were used to build the new cabin and you can still see some of the charred wood. If you time your visit right, you can see a performance in the theater also. http://www.sanilacmuseum.com/

Ludington Cabin- The Trapper's Cabin at the Historic White Pine Village was the first authorized post office in Mason County. It was originally a combination home and post office and was built as early as 1850. There are over twenty other historical buildings to see in the village. http://www.historicwhitepinevillage.org/net/tour.aspx

Troy Cabin Michigan - The cabin at the Troy Museum and Historic Village has hand-hewn logs and a bark-covered ceiling beam. It was built in Monroe County around 1840. http://www.ci.troy.mi.us/Museum/HistoricVillage/LogCabin.asp

I know there are many more Michigan cabins to see and visit, but my family hasn't found them all yet! If you know of one, could you tell me about it? Please include as much of the following information as possible:

Cabin location and directions
Photos and/or website (if available)
Your notes about this cabin. What did you like about it? How was it constructed? What do you know about its history? If you built it yourself, tell about the process and how much time and money it cost you. If you stayed in someone else's cabin, tell about the owners. If you visited a historical cabin, let me know about events that are held there.

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