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Walker Homestead Stone Cabin

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1916, Harry Walker. 7 miles from the Escalante Bridge in Escalante Canyon

In a cottonwood grove beside Escalante Creek, this sturdy, windowless homestead house has rubble walls a foot thick made of local sandstone, volcanic stone, and fieldstone. On the back side, the original mud mortar of the one-story cabin may still be seen.

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Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Walker Homestead Stone Cabin", [Delta, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-DT10.

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