| There are many important facts that should be | | | | the popular states that houses the biggest numbers |
| learned about log cabins. It would be great to know | | | | of log home producers or manufacturers are |
| that they are environment friendly. Knowing this may | | | | Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, Michigan, |
| help those who are not yet fully convinced to have a | | | | Wisconsin, Idaho, Tennessee, Oregon, Washington, |
| log home built, to finally do it. This is due to the | | | | Minnesota, Pennsylvania and New York. This is the |
| thermal mass features of wood which often exceed | | | | states where you can go to, to find your home |
| the minimum code criteria of energy efficiency. | | | | producer or even your home location. |
| Likewise, almost all the materials used by most log | | | | Aside from Lincoln and Jackson, as mentioned above, |
| home producers are renewable. | | | | it is said that there were 5 other U.S. Presidents born |
| There are two types of log homes, the handcrafted | | | | in log cabins including James Buchanan and Adlai |
| log homes and the milled log homes. Among log | | | | Stevenson. This is the very reason why log cabins |
| houses already built, only 10% are those built with | | | | became a symbol of American politics' humble |
| individually handcrafted logs with the use of handheld | | | | beginnings. William Henry Harrison made use of log |
| tools. A log house, which is handcrafted is made of | | | | cabins, along with the "Whigs" to show to the |
| logs that were peeled but still have their original | | | | Americans that he was a people's man. Some of |
| natural looks unchanged. On the other hand, the 90% | | | | these U.S. Presidents made use of the fact that they |
| of the log homes built are made of milled logs. These | | | | either lived in a log cabin or worked in one to lead |
| milled logs, otherwise known as machine-profiled logs, | | | | them to victorious presidential elections. Stevenson, in |
| are used to build the milled log homes. These logs | | | | fact, after declaring that he was born in a log cabin |
| went through a manufacturing process that removes | | | | and professed his poor beginnings, had a landslide |
| the natural features of the tree or the log, creating | | | | victory over Dwight Eisenhower. |
| timbers that have uniform appearances and sizes. | | | | Interestingly, there is now a toy available in the |
| Do you know that in 2003, which is the most recent | | | | market, called Lincoln Logs, which is fast becoming a |
| year that much of the figures regarding log homes | | | | favorite among the young. It is obviously named |
| were truly made complete, the states that are most | | | | after Abraham Lincoln, who must be the most |
| popular when it comes to having most log homes | | | | famous figurehead associated with log cabins. The |
| constructed were Texas, Pennsylvania, New York, | | | | toy has a variety of notched dowel rods that can be |
| Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Orlando, | | | | fitted together enabling its owner to construct a |
| Tennessee and West Virginia. Also in the same year, | | | | scale structure, only miniature-sized, of a log cabin. |