LEARN: Log Building at Montpelier
Learn 19th century construction from Montpelier’s expert craftsmen and preservationists as you reconstruct slave quarters from the Madison period.
The LEARN Log Building Program
Montpelier has developed four different week-long, hands-on Expedition programs that give members of the public with no experience, opportunities to work alongside members of the archaeology and historic preservation department to learn how sites are located, excavated, analyzed, and reconstructed. The LEARN Log Cabin Program fulfills the RECONSTRUCT portion of the acronym, and is designed to teach members of the public historic building techniques. Participants leave with a full understanding of historic tools and log building techniques, and become members of the larger Montpelier Family.
Our Log Cabins
October 2017 Program
October 29- November 4 2017
This program reconstructed one of the log slave quarters located in the field quarter site discovered archaeologically at Montpelier
February 2017 Program
February 5-10 2017
This program reconstructed one of the log slave quarters located in the field quarter site discovered archaeologically at Montpelier
February 2015 Program
February 2015
This program reconstructed one of the log slave quarters located in the field quarter site discovered archaeologically at Montpelier
February 2014 Program
February 2014
This program reconstructed one of the log slave quarters located at the Stable Quarter Site discovered archaeologically
