Zion Homestead Zion Homestead Window Installation Sod Placement Zion Homestead Site Site overview Technique for Sod Technique for Sod Overview Photograph 16 House House Walls Homestead in 1936. 1912, Image from the Sketch depicting Sketch of the layer of Sketch map Photograph of the Image courtesy of Joe 1909 Homesteaders, window installation. sod bricks in the wall illustrating the Zion Homestead that Zion and the Idalia "God Bless Them." Image from The Sod construction. Image positioning of various corresponds to the Visions Foundation. House. from buildings that were structures labeled in The Sod House. part of the Zion the sketch map. Homestead. (p. 21) This homestead Zion Homestead is an Note the simple but The layering of sod Detailed descriptions This last photo in the building exemplifies intact example of the effective construction strips in an alternating of the site and series brings together the lifestyle of an ingenious adaptation techniques using pattern buildings are located the previous images “brick-like” eastern plains many plains available resources. gave strength to the in the nomination of the individual homesteader, homesteaders utilized Wooden pegs were building walls form. buildings that make rancher, and farmer at for the construction of driven through holes constructed of local up the 1.27-acre the prime settlement their first home. An several places: in the materials. homestead. phase of Yuma advantage of sod wooden window frame County. buildings was the to hold them in place, accessibility to the the planks above the construction materials. window, and the On treeless, barren space between the plains, with little water, top of the window and technology, or building the planks. materials for frame or stone buildings, the
Zion Homestead Zion Homestead Window Installation Technique for Sod House Sod Placement Technique for Sod House Walls Zion Homestead Site Overview Site overview Photograph 16 Homestead in 1936. Image courtesy of Joe Zion and the Idalia Visions Foundation. 1912, Image from the 1909 Homesteaders, "God Bless Them." Sketch depicting window installation. Image from The Sod House. Sketch of the layer of sod bricks in the wall construction. Image from The Sod House. Sketch map illustrating the positioning of various buildings that were part of the Zion Homestead. (p. 21) Photograph of the Zion Homestead that corresponds to the structures labeled in the sketch map. This homestead building exemplifies the lifestyle of an eastern plains homesteader, rancher, and farmer at the prime settlement phase of Yuma County. Zion Homestead is an intact example of the ingenious adaptation many plains homesteaders utilized for the construction of their first home. An advantage of sod buildings was the accessibility to the construction materials. On treeless, barren plains, with little water, technology, or building materials for frame or stone buildings, the Note the simple but effective construction techniques using available resources. Wooden pegs were driven through holes several places: in the wooden window frame to hold them in place, the planks above the window, and the space between the top of the window and the planks. The layering of sod strips in an alternating “brick-like” pattern gave strength to the building walls constructed of local materials. Detailed descriptions of the site and buildings are located in the nomination form. This last photo in the series brings together the previous images of the individual buildings that make up the 1.27-acre homestead.
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