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Abandoned shack, Topeka, Kansas
The wood on this shack is so aged and weathered that I missed it on previous trips past this location just north of Wichita in Kansas. The contrast of the snow on this particular trip showed it up like sore thumb so I couldn't miss it.
It has to be the remnants of a tiny home and not a shed or a barn. There appears to be a window at the top of the gable end of the shack, probably for a bedroom up in the roof. This tiny, single room house was probably one of the first in the area during the settlement of the state in the mid 1800's and could well have been the biggest its owners could afford at the time. Wood like this had to be shipped in by train from the east and this part of Kansas.
My guess is that the shack probably dates from the 1860's to 1870's, a time when the west was being populated by settlers from the east. It was probably not meant to be permanent home as the clarion call at that time was 'go west'.
Abandoned shack, Topeka, Kansas
The wood on this shack is so aged and weathered that I missed it on previous trips past this location just north of Wichita in Kansas. The contrast of the snow on this particular trip showed it up like sore thumb so I couldn't miss it.
It has to be the remnants of a tiny home and not a shed or a barn. There appears to be a window at the top of the gable end of the shack, probably for a bedroom up in the roof. This tiny, single room house was probably one of the first in the area during the settlement of the state in the mid 1800's and could well have been the biggest its owners could afford at the time. Wood like this had to be shipped in by train from the east and this part of Kansas.
My guess is that the shack probably dates from the 1860's to 1870's, a time when the west was being populated by settlers from the east. It was probably not meant to be permanent home as the clarion call at that time was 'go west'.