FAIRBANKS TOWNSHIP -- For 100 years, the residents of this corner of St. Louis County have danced, voted, governed, mourned, performed and celebrated inside the hand-hewn log walls of Petrell Hall.

One hundred and ten original logs survived from the first Protestant Church west of the Mississippi River, Old Bethel Baptist Church. "From these hand hewn poplar logs many people came together and ...

Courtesy of Chris Brown To step inside George Jutras’ cabin is to step back in time nearly a century. On the wall, the calendar always reads 1935 — the year the cabin was built. The hand-hewn log ...

Authentic hand-hewn log homes that date back to the 1800s are few and far between in northern Illinois. Those that might have been built in this area back then have long since been torn down and ...