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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Not the original cabin at this site (but still an oldie built in 1867), this is the exact location of the first 160 acre plot given away under the Homestead Act. Union Army soldier Daniel Freeman received homestead patent number one for the land (located in Nebraska.) The National Park Service operates the site today. |
C. A. Nothnagle Log House (also known as Braman-Nothnagle Log House) is a historic house on Swedesboro-Paulsboro Road near Swedesboro in the Gibbstown section of Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the oldest surviving log houses in the United States. The oldest part of the house was built sometime between 1638 and 1643 by Finnish or Swedish settlers in the New Sweden colony, and Nordic ironware from the 1590s is still extant around the fireplace. The fireplace, probably built of bricks brought over to North America as ship's ballast, is asymmetric and placed in a corner of the cabin.
I am not positive what New Jersey was called back then, but from what I understand, NJ was called New Netherlands up until the Brits took it.