In regards to the following post: Hi Jerri: When you mentioned the "double log house", is that what I have always considered a "dog-trot" style log house/cabin? These houses were very common in Alabama and Mississippi; and yes, in Texas also. They are built with the basic 2 rooms (fireplace in each of these) with a large open space between them but the roof connects the rooms and "dog trot". This style house has a door leading into each room from the long front porch and then a door that opens onto the "dog trot" passageway between these two rooms. Some had "small side rooms" built onto the back of one or both rooms. I have described to you the home of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's grandparents at Johnson City, Texas. This happens to be the last one that I remember going to and was allowed to go inside the home. The hostess that maintained this old home also made bread over the open flame in the fireplace in the room that was used as the kitchen/dining room. That was one hot place on a summer afternoon! Bettye Another dog trot home..... Last time I was in the Chattanooga, TN area, we drove over across the border into Georgia. Seems like it was the 1st town we came to (Rossville??) and it had the former home of John Ross, Principal Chief displayed--which was a dog trot home like you described. As I understand, the home had been built by Ross's grandfather McDonald and Ross lived in it for a time after being dislodged by Georgia ruffians from his own home near Rome, Ga. Some of John Ross's furniture is displayed. Ross's home in Park Hill, Oklahoma is not on display because it was burned (after Ross was "arrested by the Yankees" or given a military escort out of the war ravaged Cherokee Nation --depending on the way you interpret history) by Confederate Cherokees. That's why the Murrel Home (home of his niece's husband, George Murrel) is on display today and not the Ross home.