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With more than $12,000 raised to reassemble the 1792 North Log Cabin in Lansing, town officials have chosen a site in Myers Park for the historic structure.  Tomorrow the Lansing Community Council is holding a chicken barbecue at the Lansing Town Hall that officials hope will add another thousand dollars to the tally.  The goal is $17,500, which will pay for a concrete slab, a new roof, and reassembly of the rough hewn logs from the original cabin.

Community Council President Ed LaVigne says construction can begin almost immediately now that a site has been chosen.  Town officials considered sites near the Town Hall, in Myers Park, and Salt Point.  Choosing the Myers Park site paves the way for highlighting the cabin during Lansing Harbor Festival on August 15th.

LaVigne says that volunteers will help reduce the amount of money needed to reassemble the cabin, and any unused funds will go to future restoration of the interior of the 18' x 24' building.  Once the logs are reassembled, a local boy scout has agreed to apply the mudding that insulates log cabins as his Eagle Scout project.   Pete Peters says that employees of McCarthy Builders have also volunteered labor.

The log cabin was originally built by Thomas North near the corner of Conlon and Searles Roads in Lansing, and has been taken apart three times and reassembled twice.  The first time was around 1844 on a spot about three quarters of a mile north of its original location.  The second was in 1958 behind the Cayuga Museum in Auburn.

The North family played a significant role in American history as well in local Lansing history.  Members of the family moved to Michigan in 1838, naming their new home Lansing after the place where they grew up.

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