John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin
{{short description|Historic house in Wisconsin, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Kemp, John and Margarethe, Cabin
| nrhp_type =
| image = John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin.JPG
| caption =
| location = 6950 WI Hwy. 78,
Mazomanie, Wisconsin
| coordinates = {{coord|43|13|51|N|89|43|35|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Wisconsin#USA
| built = 1863
| builder = John Kemp
| architecture = single pen log house
| added = December 10, 2008
| area = less than one acre
| refnum = 08001187{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
}}
The John and Margarethe Kemp Cabin is a log cabin built in 1863 by a German immigrant pioneer family in the Town of Mazomanie, Wisconsin, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.{{cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/NationalRegister/NR2166|title=Kemp, John and Margarethe, Cabin|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|accessdate=2012-02-05}}
History
John and Margarethe Kemp married in Prussia, had two children there, then immigrated to America. In 1863 they bought the 80 acre parcel that contains the cabin. They were probably the first settlers on the land, and put up the cabin quickly, flattening only one side of the logs to make a smooth inner wall, and joining the corners with simple square notches and wooden pegs. The Kemps lived on the farm until around 1900, and despite its simple construction, the cabin served as a home into the 1920s.{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=08001187}}|title=NRHP Inventory/Nomination: Kemp, John and Margarethe, Cabin|publisher=National Park Service|author1=Carol Lohry Cartwright|author2=Robert P. Fay|date=2007-08-20|accessdate=2019-02-14}} With {{NRHP url|id=08001187|photos=y|title=six photos.}}
After the Kemps, Andrew Williams owned the farm for about ten years, then the George Wachter family farmed it for fifty years. It was bought by Larrie and Diana Isenring in 1961, and they used the cabin as the office of their campground. The Isenrings would sell the site to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in 1989, and it now lies within the Blackhawk Unit of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway recreational area.
References
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{{National Register of Historic Places}}
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Category:1863 establishments in Wisconsin
Category:Houses completed in 1863
Category:Houses in Dane County, Wisconsin
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Dane County, Wisconsin
Category:Single pen architecture
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