An
authentic replica of the sod houses built by early settlers Nebraska
Log
cabin of former settlers, on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, in southeastern USA. 
The section to the left is a later addition.
SETTLERS HOUSE
190 West 9th Street
Ship's
carpenter and Irish Canadian immigrant Thomas Morrissey constructed this tiny
cottage for his wife and (ultimately) five children in 1867. The house survived
the Holland Fire of 1871, the same day as the fires in Chicago, Illinois and
Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Restored by the Holland Museum and opened to the public in
2001, the Settlers House recalls a life of hardships faced by area settlers and
illustrates their daily lives from the wallpapers they purchased to the rubbish
they threw out the back door. The house is furnished with locally used objects
from the Holland area's settlement period of 1845-1880, objects from the
Holland Museum's extensive collection.
Hancock
was the third of 19 Shaker villages established between 1783 and 1836 on land
given by a convert to the Shakers. The village peaked with 300 people in the
1830s with six communal families. In 1960 this village became an historic site
with 20 original buildings on 1,200 acres.
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