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The BIG Move
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Todd Baucher
It's slow going...when you're moving a structure...even though it's just for a few miles.
This cabin home had to be hoisted on a flat bed truck...before it slowly could be moved just a couple of miles.
And the home's history is just as interesting as the sight of the moving process.
Scott Lamp's family lived here for half a century...but the home was around in the 19th century.
"I did some research at the courthouse," Lamp says, "and it goes back to the 1800's. Some of the people we've talked to...they estimated the cabin back to the early 1800's. Gene Sands owned it before Mom and Dad did. He ran a lot of cattle through here and the barn's still standing."
"Mother passed away in 2009, and still lived here until six months before that," says his sister, Doris Lamp Twyman. "Father passed away in 2002, and Scott bought the property after Dad passed away, and moved in."
From the home's original location to Henderson Hall, it's normally about a five-minute drive. But this cargo took much of an afternoon to move.
Henderson Hall was it's final destination...for what its owner says will be a utility building...and another attraction for the hall.
"It used to be two or three log buildings that were torn down about 20 years ago," says Dave McKain, Director of the Oil and Gas Museum in Parkersburg, "so this will fit the Henderson Hall tradition."
The home's move had a lot of spectators. Henderson Hall's owners hope it will have a lot more...when it becomes a permanent attraction there.
Traffic had to be halted along Route 14 for a few minutes...while the home made to trip to river road and Henderson Hall.
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