Early Settlers
		The log cabin was the earliest method of construction used in Iowa City houses, hotels and places of business.  Land clearing made logs readily available.  One early Iowa City log cabin was discovered in 1926, when a house at 514 N. Gilbert St. was being demolished. The house had been built around a log cabin. This practice was common many years ago. The log cabin is described,” a one-room affair, built up of roughly hewn logs mortised together at the corners and the cracks filled with mortar…”