Carroll Swam of New Park is helping disassemble an old log house in the southern York County borough of Shrewsbury, one historic piece at a time. Background posts: York County's landscape, buildings, landmarks can serve as a classroom, How to accurately restore a historic home and Facts don't support wide house door to admit coffins.
A landmark Shrewsbury log house is slowly coming down.
That is the third option involving such a historic log home, disassembler Carroll Swam says. Carefully dismantle it and recycle the parts.
The first and preferred option, the York countian says, is to restore a home. The second is to move it.
This particular 200-plus-year-old structure could not be saved... .
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