Showalter Cabin
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18th Century Log Cabin
Travel back in time to the 1700s as you step inside VDM’s historic log cabin. Originally built in Rockingham County, Va., by the Showalter family, a section of the cabin was relocated to Charlottesville and installed in the Museum’s front gallery when VDM first opened its doors on the Downtown Mall in 1990. Dress up in period costumes, tend to the chickens in the coop next to the front porch, gather the eggs, keep an eye out for the sly fox, and prepare a meal over the fireplace, as you engage in imaginative play and discover how life was different in Virginia hundreds of years ago.
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