Modern Pioneers Launch Log Cabin Community. Spurred on by economic conditions, eight hardy families; reverting to the pioneer instincts of their fore fathers; have begun a log-cabin cooperative community on the edge of a wilderness that flanks the Daniel Webster Highway in this section. Among the contributing factors which led the twentieth century pioneers to strike out for themselves were high rents; cramped play room for children and lack of farming space. The cabins, built by the settlers themselves at a cost of less than $400; are constructed of pine; with clear maple and white birch flooring. All the timber supply is taken from the surrounding woods. The original cost of the land; about $60 an acre, and materials not available from natural sources constitute the outlay for what members of the community describe as "comfortable homes." Photo Shows: One of the settler families with some of the fruits of their labors. Mr. and Mrs. Zean Donovan, with one of their ten children; Donald, 5 years old, collecting part of the crop in their potato patch behind their log-cabin home.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. October 1936]

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