The Sims Cabin

Historical marker location:

1020 Sleepy Hollow, Waco, Texas

( on private property in the Woodway Neighborhood, .)

Marker installed: 1963

Built 1852 in Freestone County by Sterling Sims (d. 1882), settler from Georgia. With family and 17 slaves, Sims journeyed up the Trinity from Galveston, then by ox-wagon from Navarro Crossing to 490-acre farm he had bought. He and skilled slave carpenter built oak cabin as permanent home. The 18-foot (14"x 14") sills weigh more than a ton each. Moved to Waco, 1930s; damaged by fire, 1959; cabin has been restored by Robert E. Davis.

cabins, log houses

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