Hubert Marsh, right, of the Marsh House task force visits the home of Bill Whitten, left, near LaFayette, Ga., on Monday. Whitten is building a representation of a slave cabin using heart pine from an old log cabin. Called the “helping hands” exhibit, cabin will be on the property of the Marsh House in downtown LaFayette.LaFAYETTE, Ga. — Evelle Dana put out word two years ago that the Marsh House sought an old log cabin to install on its grounds as a replica slave quarters.
The cabin wasn’t hard to find.
Dana, president of the volunteer task force that maintains and operates the antebellum mansion, got a call from her friend, longtime LaFayette resident Breck Parker.
“Don’t you know I’ve got one right here not far from town?” she remembers Parker saying. “You want it? Just haul it off.”
The Marsh House Task Force’s volunteers spent a few weeks doing just that.