Friday, July 5, 2019

Almost Destroyed - The Austin Log Cabin


The Austin Log Cabin, is named for Calvin Austin, a Connecticut Land Co. agent in charge of distributing the land in this part of Ohio. It was Austin who sold 150.5 acres of land that the cabin sits on to John Packard on April 29, 1814, for $500. Packard and his second wife, Mary, and their 10 children had migrated to Austintown from Massachusetts.