 ... fort. Divisions, or partitions of logs, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part...  A History of the Valley of Virginia - Страница 341по Samuel Kercheval, Charles James Faulkner - 1833 - 486 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller - 1922 - 766 страници
...of the cabins and stockades. Their upper stories were eighteen inches every way larger in dimensions than the under one, leaving an opening at the commencement...the second story to prevent the enemy from making a lodgement under their walls. In some places less exposed, a single block house, with a cabin or two,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 248 страници
...the roof being turned wholly inward. The blockhouses were built at the angles of the fort, projecting about two feet beyond the outer walls of the cabins and stockades. The families belonging to these forts were so much attached to their nearby cabins on their farms that... | |
 | 1918 - 916 страници
...of these cabins had puncheon floors, the greater part were earthen. The block houses were built at the angles of the fort. They projected about two feet...outer walls of the cabins and stockades. Their upper stores were about eighteen inches every way larger in dimension than the under one, leaving an opening... | |
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