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Creating creature comforts for the creatures
Having reached adequate comfort for the pioneer family with the creation of the barnhouse, it was time to work on creature comforts for the livestock.
Completing the punch list before occupying the barnhouse
Once the the main log crib of the barnhouse was built, there were still a number of tasks to complete before it was ready to occupy through the winter.
Many arms (and legs) were required at a house raising
Paul Locher details the dangerous and exciting process of raising a house on the frontier of the Ohio Country in the 1800s.
Tinsmiths were self-taught craftsmen important to daily frontier living
A tinsmith was a vital craftsman in the development of a pioneer community. The items they made encompassed everything from kitchenwares to farming tools.
Without a blacksmith, there wasn’t a town
Paul Locher explains that the single most important craftsman that was needed to get an 1800s frontier town going and make it thrive was a blacksmith.
From stalk to shock to fodder, harvesting the corn crop required a myriad of unusual tools
Paul Locher explains how early settlers of Ohio country would have harvested corn, detailing the tools they would have used.
You couldn’t pioneer without a felling axe
Paul Locher continues his “An American Tale” series by introducing readers to the most important tool used to open the American frontier — the felling axe.
Recycling Conestoga wagons
After Conestoga wagons made their journey to the frontier in the early 1800s, they would be disassembled and their parts would be reused in households.
Preparing for construction was heavy, muddy work
Paul Locher details the special tools early settlers would have needed to start constructing buildings when settling in Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1800s.
Perennial Gardeners set date for annual sale
The Perennial Gardeners of Chesterland is having its annual plant sale the day before Mother’s Day, May 11, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
