The people of Kinmundy are lucky to have someone like Robert ?Bob? Ingram in their midst. Over many years, and at great cost?both financially and through hard, manual work?Mr. Ingram has carefully built an historic monument to the early pre-Civil War American past. In cooperation with his late mother Erma, Mr. Ingram purchased or had given to him, seventeen authentic pre-Civil War cabins and homesteads. Together they built a Log Cabin Village which is now open to the public. The seventeen cabins are all constructed with the original hand hewn logs, which had been numbered when dismantled, moved to their present location, and then reassembled. All are equipped with period furnishings. Each cabin has the history of the structure documented and displayed; one of the cabins is an old stage coach stop and inn visited by both Abraham Lincoln and Jesse James. Though other log cabin villages exist, the Ingram Log Cabin Village is believed to be the largest accumulation of authentic log cabins in the United States.
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