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Show PIONEER AlIC£ WALLGREN kitchen was the heart of the home with its black cook stove and wash stand. Meals were served on a long table that could seat the parents and sixteen HOME, 1867 step-down fondly remembers: and "Ralph and Emma H. Jenkins built their lumber home at 78 Holden in 1867. At first there were just two rooms, but later two more rooms were added with a children. A homemade front porch. There was a cellar under the house where large bins held fruits and vegetables, smoked meat hung from rafters and fruit shelves were loaded with bottled food. Ralph built a shanty a few steps from the "They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary here; many children were married here and some grandchildren born here. "About 1920 the house was remodeled and Ralph and lti!tchen door where meals were and was Emma lived here until their deaths. Emma lived here for 78 years. This is the oldest house in Midvale still being lived in." family celebrations. room It and at times served as an completed as a laundry extra bedroom. Early home, Mayor J. Pioneer home built in 1867 (Scanlon) by Ralph B. Wright. lOG CABIN MARY A. MITCHElL tells about another bed, This a there was an glass table basket held a Emma's and a organ, balls in claws small table with of folding on pictures Ralph's chairs each leg. and the were on each deep window sills "The small was off the living room. log Village at Lagoon given to Sorenson's Pioneer Village by Kenneth and Mary Mitchell about 1955. The cabin was at 80 South Main when Mitchells moved there in 1944. It was built in 1867 and used at different times as a smoke house, a granary and a tool house by the Martin Hansen family." The Drown Log cabin in Pioneer was holding house plants. "Their small bedroom early home: wall side of the coal heater. Starched curtained framed stereoptican, cou.rtesy heona M. Muir occupied. courtesy Alice Wallgren room big pantry and Emma Jenkins. Lavino and Fred Jenkins af gate. This home is still "In the front a bedroom. cooked for threshers also used cupboard this center and led into another small Cabin at 73 City Park |
