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Single-room log cabin with a wooden shingle roof and stone chimney, surrounded by trees and a split-rail fence at Knob Creek, Kentucky.

The log cabin of James Galloway, Xenia, Ohio

Single-story log cabin with a wood shingle roof, two windows, and an open doorway, identified as the original Pony Express Station in Ehmen Park, Gothenburg, Nebraska.

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