This simple two-room dwelling is significant as the only exposed log building remaining in Staunton and as a house built by a freed African American, Edmund Cabell, shortly after the Civil War. It was purchased by the Historic Staunton Foundation in March 2024, which plans to mothball the structure (a process used to secure a historic building so that it is dry and safe) until a preservation and rehabilitation plan is established.
References
"Preserving the Cabell Log House," Historic Staunton Foundation website, https://www.historicstaunton.org/our-work/cabell-log-house/.