Experience an 1800s Henry County Homestead

Dog Trot Log House

The Dog Trot Log house was built in the mid-1850s. Over 20 years ago, it was moved about 20 miles from an area near Montrose, Missouri, to its current location in Clinton, Missouri.

It is a house rather than a cabin because it has square logs. “Dog Trot” comes from the open-air area between the two rooms. The two enclosed rooms, known as “pens,” were likely built at different times as they have different construction and are different sizes. It once served as a stagecoach stop as well.

Outbuildings

The smokehouse, outhouse, well, sorghum press, barn, and cemetery were added later.

Cemetery

During the construction of Truman Dam, the Corp of Engineers had to relocate several family cemeteries that would have been submerged.

The Homestead cemetery contains headstones originally from the Shadrach Dunning Cemetery, located to the South-West of Brownington, off Z Highway.