Hello Neighbors,
We are hoping to contact the area neighborhoods to help promote the Claiborne Kyle Log House Chicken Dinner on September 25th!
Claiborne Kyle Log House Annual Fried Chicken Dinner
When: 09/25/2010 through 09/25/2010
11:00AM - 2:00PM
Where: Claiborne Kyle Log House
2400 S. Old Stagecoach Rd., County Road 136
The Chicken Dinner is the only fundraiser for our historic Kyle Log House, and we truly need the community’s support. You are being contacted as a representative for your neighborhood in hopes that you might inform your neighbors about this upcoming fundraiser via your websites and newsletters.
The details and a brief history can be found in the attached document, but just in case, it is included below, as well. Please help spread the word about this great historic site and tradition!
We hope to see everyone at the Chicken Dinner on September 25th! If you haven’t tried it, the chicken is scrumptious!
Thanks so much for your help,
Christina Baese
Claiborne Kyle Log House Commissioner
PS View some great photos here: http://www.hayshistoricalcommission.com/maps/Kyle_log_house.php
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Claiborne Kyle Log House Holds Annual Fried Chicken Dinner Fundraiser on September 25, 2010
Have you ever driven down Old Stagecoach Road and yearned to check out this historic site? Now’s your chance!
On Saturday, September 25th, come out to the Claiborne Kyle Log House for the Annual Fried Chicken Dinner. The Kyle Log House is located at 2400 South Old Stagecoach, County Road 136, South of Kyle. This annual event is the only fundraiser for the upkeep of the historical site. Plates are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12. The event runs from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
If you would like to lend a hand at the event, please contact Marilyn Beals of the Kyle Log House Commission at 512-268-9981. They could use a few helping hands!
During the summer, the Kyle Log House is open on the first Sunday of the month from April to September from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM and holds a yearly wildflower event, too.
History of the Claiborne Kyle Log House
Claiborne and Lucy Bugg Kyle married in 1829 in Tennessee and moved to Texas in 1844. Kyle, a former Senator from Mississippi, relocated to Texas after experiencing some financial hardships. In 1850, they built this massive log house on a bluff overlooking the Blanco River. With help from his farm workers, he built this log house of alternating courses of cedar logs and rock grouting, square notched at the corners and secured by wooden pegs.
The Kyle Log House is a most unusual type known as the “linear four-pen dog trot” and is the only one of this type left in Texas. The home has four rooms, each about 16 feet square and lined up with two on either side of the dog trot. It housed the couple, their eight children, and one adopted son.
It is listed in the Terry Jordan book Texas Log Cabins, and a picture and story appear in the book Nineteenth Century Homes. On September 22, 1980, the Blanco River Bluffs, Inc. deeded the Kyle Log House to Hays County. A Claiborne Kyle Log House Commission was appointed to direct the restoration and maintenance of the house. On May 28, 1981, the Claiborne Kyle Log House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. A Texas Historical Marker was dedicated in 1982.
