Two-Pen Dog Trot

This log cabin model is based on a pre-Civil War log cabin home I toured several years ago. If you are a real estate agent you might list this dwelling as "double cabins connected by a breezeway". The folks who built the original called this log cabin home a two-pen-dog trot. Let me explain. The pioneers called a room a pen. This cabin has two rooms . . or two pens. The open, roofed area between the cabins was called a dog trot. Likely, this area was taken over by the family dogs as they were protected from inclement weather and close to family members who fed, played and hunted with them. If you have a few dogs, you know how restless they can get! Thus, the antsy dogs trotting around became the name for this sheltered space.