It was in this log cabin that Medina pioneers gathered in 1859 to vote unanimously for Abraham Lincoln. The cabin was located at that time on Wolsfeld property a mile north of Long Lake. It served not only as a town hall, but also as a country school and church. WHCPA moved and reconstructed the cabin on wooded property next to the main museum. Visitors, particularly children, can go inside to see what school conditions were like in the 1860s, when students huddled together two to a seat for warmth in the winter and wrote their lessons with chaulk on slate slabs. |