This is the house I was talking about in my "Civil War" blog. I stayed in a tent in the yard just to the left of this house. When we went through for the tour, we found out it was the Jewkes House. I was so excited to find out that it was there!! It had a picture of the family in there too! It was really awesome!JEWKES / DRAPER HOME
Fountain Green, Sanpete County 1868Relocated in 1981
Born in England and trained in the heavy iron industries of Britain, Samuel Jewkes immigrated to Fountain Green in 1861 where he operated a sawmill and gristmill. This wood frame house, representative of a middle class home, was built using heavy pine timbers connected with mortise-and-tenon joints and wooden pegs. The interior walls were insulated by laying adobe bricks between the timbers. Lime plaster and whitewash was applied directly on the exposed adobe surfaces. The exterior is of clapboard, a significant type of construction in the 1860s, and very rare today as most have been demolished. In 1879, Jewkes sold his home to Henry Draper because he had been called on a mission by Brigham Young to settle a pioneer community further south in Castle Valley.
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Hey! Glad to see that you have a blog too!! That is really cool to see Samuel Jewkes house! I've always known it was there, but sadly I've never taken the time to go up there to see it!
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