Christmas in Heritage Cabin, Hocking Hills, OH

heritage cabin

Heritage Cabin is a log cabin from the 1860's, converted into a modern vacation house. It overlooks the Clear Creek valley, and provided a wonderful home for a couple days while we explored parts of the Hocking Hills State Park.

entrance and kitchen

We parked next to the side porch of the house, where the main door was. That opened up to a small pantry and a nice, fully-furnished modern kitchen. The walls and cabinets were full of vintage accessories to an old house, most of which was probably still perfectly usable. It included copper and iron pots and pans, a few scales, birdhouses, a breadbox, and more.

dining room

A small dining room attached to the kitchen and opened up to the back porch, which had a hot tub, and overlooked downhill to a forest of trees. This room held by far the most interesting bits of the house. From more vintage kitchen accessories to saws, keys, rug beaters, empty bottles, pulleys, and plenty more tools I can't name, it was great fun to sit in and look at.

living room

The modest living room was less ambitious in its collection of stuff, but there were still plenty of interesting things. There was a modern record player and a wood stove, and a display of old bottles, lock mechanisms, and keys atop the doorway.

lower bedroom

The downstairs bedroom opened to the front of the house, and overlooked the side. It had fewer decorations than the main room, but still included a vintage dressmaker's square, an old ironing board, a couple old windows (with frames) as wall artwork, and various other things.

the game

When we arrived at the cabin, we found the usual guest book on the dining table with notes from previous visitors. A quick scan also revealed that there was an ongoing game, whereby guests would hide dollar bills for the next guests to find, and put the clues in the book. We had a great time finding the missing bills, and then thinking up fun ways to hide them again. The first note has the clues that we left. Can you figure out which objects in the pictures of the house are hiding the bills? There are a couple other notes from previous visits, so you can see what kinds of clues other people left.