Treaty Line Museum

After the people who did the surveying were done, the folks who were left to rescue the East Fork's history went about it logically. They found all the ancient log cabins built by the original pioneers and moved them all to a field in the tiny hamlet of Dunlapsville, just north of the northern end of the lake.

Union County.

Log cabins built by the Logans, the Hannas, others from the valley were all nestled into what was to be a working pioneer farm. It was a great idea without much support. It shut down in the late 80s for lack of money and inspiration -- and it was left to rot away.

It's doing that. Old buildings rescued from Quakertown and the valley are getting no attention, most likely won't from the Union County Historical Society, which mows the grass and not much else. The village is worse than it looks from the road.

The cabins are from the early 1800s and were built generally by the Carolina Settlement which was the first to buy and enter land in the area west of Mount Carmel and north of old Fairfield. Their lands stretched mostly into present-day Union County not far from the Whitewater River, East Fork. 

The cabins are interesting. 

At one time, the village endeavored to show what life was like in the early days. A grand objective. Dunlapsville is probably the worst place on Earth not under water to put up such a museum.

The log structures appear to be in remarkably good condition but weather has a way of ruining roofs. One assumes that after 200 years, these things have defied nature and will continue to do so. One also hopes that somebody else takes charge of this project.