The J. K. Miller House
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txoilgas
N 33° 45.740 W 096° 33.313
14S E 726423 N 3738490
The log cabin now covered by modern building materials and is currently occupied.
Waymark Code: WMAJZF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2011
Views: 8
Marker Number: 7407
Marker Text:
Pioneer home of J Kinsey Miller and wife Orrena (Tabor), who came to Texas from North Carolina in 1852, settling in 1860 in area of later Denison. About 1866 Miller and his sons built 2-room dogtrot house of oak logs over stone cellar with gun ports for defense in Indian attacks. Later additions made the house more livable. In family of 14 children, a Miller daughter born in this house was the first known native of Denison.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1972
Incise in base: Preserved by Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. Blood
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