Event: Relocating Historic Palmer-Epard Cabin. Watch historic preservation specialists disassemble the historic cabin piece by piece, move it and re-assemble it. During reconstruction rotten logs will be replaced to ensure the long-term preservation of this structure that represents our Nation’s Homesteading History.

Date/Time: Disassembling the cabin is currently underway and is expected to be completed by Wednesday, September 16; reassembling then will begin. Work will be conducted from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily.

Place: Disassembling will take place at Homestead National Monument of America’s Education Center. The cabin will be reassembled near the Homestead Heritage Center.

Who: Preservation Specialists from the National Park Service’s Center for Historic Preservation, Frederick, Maryland, will be on-site conducting the work.

Why: This project is being taken to remove the Palmer-Epard Cabin from a 100-year flood plain, enhance the cultural landscape and reduce confusion as to who's cabin it was. Since the cabin now sits on the Daniel Freeman Homestead Claim, visitors to the monument often associate the Palmer-Epard cabin to being a cabin used by Freeman.

Note: Please call prior to visiting Homestead National Monument of America at 402-223-3514 to verify activity.