Max Bertola over at pioneer.1stward.com has some great pictures of the Levi Roberts cabin at Deseret Village.
This was the family’s second home, a step up from the first one.
Levi Roberts, one of Joseph Smith’s bodyguards and a member of the Mormon Battalion, built this home on the bank of Kay’s Creek in present-day Kaysville, Utah. Completed in 1856, it was the family’s second cabin.
In Kay’s Creek, homes were built as a community project with six to eight families helping to build cabins for each other. After spring planting was done, the men would travel up the canyon to collect Douglas fir for logs, then saw them into planks with one man below the log in a saw-pit and another above. The two men working together could saw lumber as straight as a modern mill can.
Working together, pioneer families could build a cabin in as little as two days.
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