Brad Merrill, foreground, and Scott Kelley of Walden Log Homes work to assemble a cabin at the Greenway Farm. The building will be used by canoeists.An old log cabin that has sat tucked away in the woods at Greenway Farm will now be out in the open.
“The first step is getting it restored,” said Larry Cook, president of the North Chickamauga Creek Conservancy.
The Sniteman cabin, built in the 1850s before the Civil War, is being rebuilt at Greenway Farm near the newly constructed barn and the community garden. The cabin is named after the family of Prussian immigrant Christian Sniteman.
For almost 15 years it sat hidden away in the underbrush of the woods near Gann Store Road.
Larry Zehnder, the city’s director of Parks and Recreation, said safety was the main reason for keeping it there. The city had no money to make sure it was safe from vandals, he said.