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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 24, 2021 7:21:00 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse John Mulkey moved to the area in 1797 and founded Mill Creek Baptist Church, with this log church being built in 1804, making it the oldest freestanding log meeting house in the Commonwealth. November 18, 1809, the Mill Creek Baptist Church congregation split over doctrine. John Mulkey and some 150 followers stayed at this location. The fifty some odd who disagreed, split off and took the name, Mill Creek Baptist Church, with them, building an identical building nearby; Mill Creek Baptist still meets in that building today. Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site Ky Hwy 1446 Tompkinsville - Monroe County Cumberland River Ferry Roadtrip Wednesday_10-June-2020 Get the rest of the story here; an interesting read: www.therestorationmovement.com/_states/kentucky/mulkeymtnghse.htmI hope you like it.  |
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Post by Lillias on Oct 24, 2021 9:21:07 GMT
Thank you for sharing this Buckskin. Very interesting story indeed.
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Post by hmca on Oct 24, 2021 15:12:16 GMT
I just have to say that for anyone interested in history, you could sure make a case for visiting Kentucky, BuckSkin.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 24, 2021 22:13:32 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse__1804 The Book of Records Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site Tompkinsville - Monroe County Cumberland River Ferry Roadtrip Wednesday_10-June-2020 I apologize for the bright glare that makes this info-sign difficult to read. I broke it down into seeable/readable pieces. I hope you like it.         |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 24, 2021 23:58:29 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse__1804 I have never seen this style of lock-notch before; if I have, I didn't notice. You can see the hand-hewn tool marks from the broadaxe and adze, displaying the immense amount of manual effort that went into the making of these logs. I can take my band-saw-mill and do in five minutes what probably took them a couple of days. I notice that every log contains the heart. As a general rule, every post or beam that contains the heart will self-destruct in short order; it is amazing the building has held up as well as it has. Sawmills consider the heart of a log as waste and relegate it to such cheap material tasks as pallet making. Another definite negative is the use of cement mortar as log chinking. The wooden logs will rapidly expand and contract with varying moisture content; whereas, the mortar remains an ungiving constant. Logs will swell with enough force to crush and crack the mortar. Then, when the logs contract, gaps are created for moisture and insects to invade. Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site Tompkinsville - Monroe County Cumberland River Ferry Roadtrip Wednesday_10-June-2020 I hope you like it.   |
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Post by hmca on Oct 25, 2021 0:09:32 GMT
I especially like the second image. You have captured the beauty and texture of the old wood. I notice that every log contains the heart. What is the "heart of the wood"......Google was no help....linked it to some fantasy video game. OK...thinking about this some more....maybe the center of the log.....that would make sense looking at it again. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 25, 2021 3:30:51 GMT
I especially like the second image. You have captured the beauty and texture of the old wood. I notice that every log contains the heart. What is the "heart of the wood"......Google was no help....linked it to some fantasy video game. In the last several years, Google has became quite worthless.OK...thinking about this some more....maybe the center of the log.....that would make sense looking at it again. You are right in that the heart is the center; however, it is not always the mathematical center. A cross-section cut of a tree/log (the end of a log) exhibits the growth rings, supposedly one ring per year; the very inside/center ring is the heart. A tree can grow on the side of a bluff, withstanding fierce winds and gravity it's entire life; thus, the heart will be offset to one side and not be the mathematical center. Such a tree is said to have grown under compression. The same thing, although not as pronounced, will happen to trees on the outside edge of a forest; one side of the tree is more or less protected from wind by the other trees and that protected side, also because of the other trees, will not receive an equal amount of sunlight compared to the opposite/sunny side, thus the center growth ring will be offset from true mathematical center. As for these growth rings, wood with very thin/tight growth rings will be much stronger and longer lasting that wood with thick rings. This modern, politically correct, environmentally friendly, "sustainable" lumber has very thick rings; it will decay much quicker and is not nearly so strong and resilient as lumber from trees with close/tight rings. A little more about tree rings: The rings want to straighten themselves into straight lines. A carpenter who ignores this will have planks that loosen and fall off, and buildings that come apart. You always want the bark/outer side of a plank to be against whatever it is being attached to; so, when the rings try to straighten themselves, they make the joint tighter. Flip the plank over and nail the heart/inner side against the frame and, when the rings straighten, they will pull the nails out from the frame, loosening the joint. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 25, 2021 5:10:17 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse__1804 The interior. On that fateful Saturday morning of November 18, 1809, if we have done our homework, we know that some 150 separatists went out the West door and fifty some odd stalwarts went out the East door. Can you imagine two hundred seldom washed souls crammed into that small building, especially mold and humidity plagued allergy-ridden Kentuckians, coughing, hacking, and sneezing all over each other ? Of course, many were accustomed to such close confines; as, they had recently crossed the Atlantic with some three hundred plus souls in a vessel not much larger than a modern day cabin cruiser. With a little imagination, they could have easily hidden that eyesore electrical conduit. Note the deep circular saw-tooth marks in the floor. At a glance, those saw marks tell me three things; one, a circular saw blade sliced these planks; and, two, that fact tells me that the floor is quite a bit newer than the log hull; had they have had a circular saw-mill anywhere in the community, they would not have went to the extreme effort of hand-hewing the logs; three, either the sawyer was crowding the blade, or there was at least one tooth with too much set, or both. Being a floor where countless sinners and hypocrites have trod for well over a hundred years, normal saw marks would not still be so prominent; hence is why I say that either the blade was being crowded, and therefore wobbling; or, there was a tooth (or teeth) set out farther and digging a deeper groove than it's mates with each pass. Notice that every log has a longitudinal split. These splits are caused by the growth rings instinctive effort to free themselves from their circular confines and seek straightness; this longitudinal splitting is one of many reasons that it is undesirable to use material containing the heart. To prove this, take notice of some sticks of whole, unsplit, firewood that has been cut for a year or so; every last stick will be split longitudinally; nothing you can do will prevent this from occurring.     |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 25, 2021 5:18:58 GMT
If someone yelled "FIRE!", there would be a lot of cracked noggins trying to get out that door. Does anyone know why our ancestors often made such short doors ?  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 25, 2021 12:35:16 GMT
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Post by cjt on Oct 25, 2021 21:22:55 GMT
The fifty some odd who disagreed, split off I'll have to remember where I know some of these here. cjt |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 26, 2021 8:18:28 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse__1804 The Graveyard There is a vast and very historical cemetery on the grounds. Some of the markers/stones have no corpse beneath them; some because no body could be found; and, some are buried and marked elsewhere, but descendants wanted them memorialized here as well. I can understand the desire to have historical ancestors memorialized here when they are actually buried elsewhere; researchers and tourists alike are far more likely to learn their story from a well known public park such as this, than from some secluded inaccessible family plot that nobody is likely to ever see. Ephraim Dicken 1762-1837 (75-yrs-old)  Excerpted from the sign above for easier reading:   |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 27, 2021 7:01:53 GMT
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse__1804 The Graveyard Sons of the American Revolution The SAR has a large presence in this park, as also does the DAR. The SAR is a 'lineage' society; this means that each member has traced their family tree back to a point of having an ancestor who supported the cause of American Independence during the years 1775–1783. I have seen just as many examples of this same medallion with the positions of the "S" and "A" reversed; in fact, there are examples of both in this graveyard. Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site Tompkinsville - Monroe County Cumberland River Ferry Roadtrip Wednesday_10-June-2020 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_the_American_Revolution  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 27, 2021 8:13:23 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 27, 2021 22:33:26 GMT
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