When you visit the manufacturing site, feel free to watch our handcrafters at work, even hew a log if you like. We invite you to spend the night in our “Rocky Top” log cottage which is nearby and view our home, “The Cumberland Gap”. The “LONESOME PINE D” and “ALLEGHENY B” models serve as our company headquarters. Old Virginia headquarters and manufacturing facility is located in the Southwestern tip of Virginia on US Highway 58 at Dot, between Duffield and Jonesville. Customers ideas or plans are approximately 90% or our sales. When there comes a time the simple and ordinary just won’t do, you can select one of our exciting standard floor plans or use our in-house drafting service to produce a custom design. This unique blend of old and new ensures quality and individuality in style and design for the creative person who wants a home that reflects their personality. (by Reed Williams)Ĭareful research of early log home building has been combined with the latest technical skills and engineering design. was born in 1981 with the goal to continue an American heritage – handcrafting authentic, Appalachian style log homes – continuing a family tradition. The response was unreal!! Before our house was finished, we had orders for other log homes, and the rest is history. When folks saw the handcrafting, hewing, dovetail notches and workmanship, word got around. The logs were hand hewn, the dovetail corners were notched, then the logs were placed in the wall, one at a time. The handcrafting was done on site, next to the foundation. Combining their knowledge and expertise in hewing and handcrafting and my experience in construction, we began to build our first log home. Later, it seemed fitting to call our improved design “The Eagle System.” My dad, “Babe” was a retired coal miner and my uncle, Bob Williams, a retired carpenter. With this in mind, Judy and I simply took a framing square, level and common sense and went up the hill to an old log house which had been handcrafted by Ambrose Eagle, and studied the technique he had used – integrating modern technology and a few modifications of our own, devised a near perfect system. “Logsmiths”, as they were called in those days. My dad’s Great Grandfather Ambrose Eagle and both his grandfathers, Emmett Eagle and Joseph Williams, were handcrafters and builders of log homes. The more brochures I looked through, the more confused I became, with each manufacturer claiming to be the best – I quickly saw their best just wasn’t what I wanted, so I decided to build my own. I always knew that someday I would build a log home and it looked like now was as good a time as any. Often we are asked how we got into the log home business.
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