Pioneer Settlement Backgroud

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Pioneer Settlement Backgroud

• Blend of German and Scots-Irish
• Combined words, customs, and ways to build
• Reached Louisiana in 1790s-1830s
• Settled in north and west part of state
• Also settled in Florida parishes

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Upland South Culture

• Self-sufficient, tough, independent people
• cooperative efforts when needed
• Mainly small farmers
• Evangelical Protestants
• Baptists, Methodists, or Presbyterians

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Pattern of Settlement

• Widely scattered
• Few people claimed a lot of land
• Buildings made of logs from nearby forests
• Connected by rambling wagon roads

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Styles of Architecture Single Pen

• Single room dwelling
• 16X16 or 16X18
• Quickly and cheaply built
• Interior
• dark, crowded, no glass in windows

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Styles of Architecture Double Pen

• Double room dwelling
• 16X32 or 16X36
• Interior
• one door for each pen, dark, crowded, no glass in
  windows
• Never very common in Louisiana

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Styles of Architecture Dogtrot

• Two rooms separated by a passageway
• Like a hallway
• Open to outside on both ends
• Dominant building style
• Used as main house on small plantations