{"id":3220,"date":"2020-11-07T12:13:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2020-11-08T00:33:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T06:33:11","slug":"murphy-cabin-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/murphy-cabin-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy Cabin Front"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MurphyCabin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MurphyCabin1.jpg 596w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MurphyCabin1-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Murphy Family Cabin &#8211; front view<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>It is thought that the back fireplace wall was where the plaque is now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>16 people lived in a make shift cabin here during the winter to spring of 1846-47<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 12 Murphy &#8211; (Foster &#8211; Pike) family members left after William Pike was accidently shot near where today&#8217;s Reno, NV is located plus 4 Eddy Family members built and occupied this cabin.\u00a0 The large boulder above was part of the cabins west wall, allowing a ready made chimney and hearth plus insulation from rain, snow and wind. It was a dark room with no windows, just a door.\u00a0 They probably used hides for a roof, maybe some branches.\u00a0 From excavations and archaeological work done during the summers of 1984 &amp; 1985, it is estimated that the cabin was about 25 ft long, 18 ft. wide and 8 ft. high.\u00a0 Lodgepole pine trees with straight smooth trunks of approximately the same diameters, were used to build the cabin.\u00a0 The bark was left on the trees so the log walls would not decay as fast.\u00a0 Mud was used to fill in the gaps between logs and animal hides were hung on the inside walls to help keep out the wind and cold.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scroll9.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/murphys-photo-collection\/\">BACK to Murphy Photo Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Web Design &amp; Graphics by MaryCarol<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Murphy Family Cabin &#8211; front view It is thought that the back fireplace wall was where the plaque is now. 16 people lived in a make shift cabin here during the winter to spring of 1846-47 The 12 Murphy &#8211; (Foster &#8211; Pike) family members left after William Pike was accidently shot near where today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/murphy-cabin-front\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 7, 2020","modified":"Updated on November 8, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 7, 2020 12:13 pm","modified":"Updated on November 8, 2020 12:33 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}