INTRO
Building homes was something that was very important to everyone in the family because this would protect them from the many harms the world could bring like enemies, the environment, thieves, many many things There is lots to tell you, so i will start now.
What went into pioneer homes and how they were made
In the pioneer times your houses were near bodies of water often so they could make wells esair to create, also to make women travel less to do the washing or get water for dinner. This helped things go smother in the house hold and people were happy they wouldn't have to leave their home and their kids alone for 20 minutes or more. But any kind of land you got you would have to work on it for 5 years before it became legally yours how crazy is that!!!Not that owning one was that easy during a BAD storm the whole cabin could be ruined just think during a thunder storm instead of being worried about getting wet when you run outside for a minute you would be thinking that the next blast could destroy your home leaving you homeless and alone now that we have realized that we need to be more safe there is less of a chance that are home will be ruined in just a thunder storm. The people who lived out in the country usually lived far from the city and didn't like it there very much they also were never very close the each other ether sometimes there would be as close as it would get. Your home would be built on 106 acres which would be free for any one 21 or over.Part of your home in that time was your crop it would help you ay back people who helped you build the house or lent you wood or nails in act when you went to the general store you would trade with furs and crops. Also if you wanted to have enough strength to continue working on your house the crops would give you the fuel to keep going on your house or to keep hunting to get protein for you and your family.You would not be able to pick what to use on your house you would have to use what you had on your land you would start your home in between to forked trees.Your home would always be facing south that way it was facing away from the rain and winds and when they hit you would not be hit straight on and all your hard work would not be destroyed. At first your lean to would just be a shelter until you would be done with your real house was done so it would not be as sturdy as your real house. Before winter your main goal would be to have a good cabin cabin and a good crop because you would never ever want to be in your lean to during because (if you look down to the pic of it) it was a very week shelter and you could get frost bit in the middle of the night.Also it didn't have any place to store food in it so you could lose your whole crop to it which would mean you would starve.
What was in the home, from furniture, to fire places.
The pioneers didn't have such nice things as a couch or of course a tv it fact the things in there home were pretty much always hand made unless they got a nice crop one year and were able to trade it for something a bit nicer, still nothing like what we have now. Inside a pioneer home there was not room enough for really anything but a bed (maybe two) and tables and chairs nothing really fancy but it was okay because kids did there playing other places and it was keep as clean as possible because it was so small.They also didn't have electricity so they would use something called a kerosene lamp which they would light with a mach and the kerosene would become light up and give them light. But kerosene lamps were not the only source of light there was also the fire place made of mud and sticks though that was not used for light very often but mostly for warmth on the cold windy days in winter. Sleeping in a log cabin is much different from how we sleep now for one thing there was no "sleepy's" 0r any other mattress place they were made out of birds feathers and they also were hand made, the parents would most likely have the big bed and the kids the small one the base for the bed was made out of wood and the head board was also. the kids would sleep on the same floor as the rest of the family so the beds often were pushed up next to each other which made it hard to move around in and made it feel even smaller. ( some times the families would eat outside.)
extra things you would have in you home
some times you would have something to make your home a little more like a home and less like a house. something that many husbands made for their wives was a rocking chair this way if there was a baby or she was wanting to relax and sew she would have a spot away from the rest of the family to get a baby to bed or think. The kids also would have somethings like toys or they would have there own cup and plate which may not seem like a big deal to us but to them it was because (more when the kids were the same gender) they had to share everything. A last thing thing that would be a gun that the father used to hunt food for the family and to protect them from any one who tried to harm them.
some times you would have something to make your home a little more like a home and less like a house. something that many husbands made for their wives was a rocking chair this way if there was a baby or she was wanting to relax and sew she would have a spot away from the rest of the family to get a baby to bed or think. The kids also would have somethings like toys or they would have there own cup and plate which may not seem like a big deal to us but to them it was because (more when the kids were the same gender) they had to share everything. A last thing thing that would be a gun that the father used to hunt food for the family and to protect them from any one who tried to harm them.
Conclusion
I really hope you learned something about building a home in pioneer times from this page and that you found it interesting. And i hope you like learning about this and that you have some ideas on what it was like to be a pioneer building a home. Bye!
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Bibliography
Life on a pioneer homestead by Sally Senzell Isaacs Life in the west by Teresa Domnaver factsfornow.scholastics.com by Scholastic |