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" The fort consisted of cabins, block-houses and stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of log.?, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high,... "
A History of the Valley of Virginia - Page 341
by Samuel Kercheval - 1833 - 486 lehte
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Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which ...

James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - 1858 - 1026 lehte
...formed one side at least of the fort Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from eaoh other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve...puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. " The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls...
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History of Washington County: From Its First Settlement to the Present Time ...

Alfred Creigh - 1871 - 520 lehte
...A range of cabins commonly formed one side, at least, of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...projected about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabin and stockade. Their upper stories were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than...
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Our Western Border: Its Life, Combats, Adventures, Forays, Massacres ...

1875 - 806 lehte
...A range of cabins, separated by divisions of logs, commonly formed one side, at least, of the fort. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high,...the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. Very few of the cabins had puncheon floors, but nearly all earthen. The block-houses were built at...
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History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870

Lewis Preston Summers - 1903 - 932 lehte
...side, at least, of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins one from another. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high,...the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. Very few of these cabins had plank floors ; the greater part were earthen. The block-houses were built...
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The Life and Times of Anne Royall

Sarah Harvey Porter - 1908 - 330 lehte
...stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed at least one side of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of the cabins had puncheon floors; the greater part were of earth. ment under their walls. In some forts...
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The Scotch-Irish in America

Henry Jones Ford - 1915 - 628 lehte
...stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...puncheon floors; the greater part were earthen. The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls...
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The Scotch-Irish in America

Henry Jones Ford - 1915 - 630 lehte
...stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...puncheon floors; the greater part were earthen. The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet beyond the outer walls...
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Myers' History of West Virginia, 1. köide

Sylvester Myers - 1915 - 586 lehte
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The Kentucky River Navigation, 28. number

Mary Verhoeff - 1917 - 378 lehte
...range of the former commonly formed at least one side of the fort. Divisions or partitions of logs separated the cabins from each other. The walls on...ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being invariably inward. "A few of these cabins had puncheon floors but the greater part were earthen. The...
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