The George Little Cabin is believed to have been built about 1880 and was located on a family farm near
Leopold. Reconstruction began at the Village in 2017 and is due to be completed for a dedication
ceremony in October, 2018. There were nine children born in the cabin, with a lean-to kitchen at the
back. It was donated to the Village by Jediah and Jody French, the current owners of the old Little Farm.
The house was rebuilt with some financial help from Little relatives but without any major grant.

The George Little Cabin is the sixth hewn log cabin and vintage homestead to be rebuilt at the Village,
almost entirely by volunteer labor. The cabin has a full stand-up attic, a rustic front porch per the
original and a brick chimney. The house has no fireplace. The chimney, built by mason John Jackson, will
serve both an antique heating stove and a cooking range. At 18 feet long by 16 feet wide, this is the
smallest of six cabins built at the Village. The cabin, built at the major intersection of the Village, will
serve as an information center, as well as a rebuilt homestead. The large front porch will be a venue for
unplugged music and craft demonstrations.

The cabin has been built as good or better than the original. The rebuilt house sits on foundations
considerably stronger than the originals and the integrity of the cabin made to last well into the future.
The cabin has a split-wood shingle roof, as it would have had originally. The very large windows, which
were not original, were replaced with smaller, two-over- two panes. The main floor was destroyed by
termites and otherwise was not original. The upstairs floor was not original and was not saved. The
rebuilt upstairs floor is made of old T&G Poplar, salvaged from another 1880 house. The downstairs
floor is of new lumber, made to look old. The ceiling joists and staircase are original and have been
restored.

In addition to the six vintage cabins, the Village now includes a blacksmith shop, carpenter shop,
mercantile, the Ramsey Shelter, Troy stone jail, the Rogier bee-hive oven, Poehlein Smokehouse, historic
gristmill stones and the Millstone one-room school. The Village is a non-profit organization with a board
of trustees dedicated to the reconstruction and preservation of historic structures and artifacts. It is
located one-half mile north of Rocky Point on Scenic Route 66.

The Village is named after Shubael Little who, in 1839, first settled the land where the village is located.
According to “Goodspeed’s History of Perry County,” Little helped found the first school at Rome and
the Masonic Lodge in Cannelton. He was one of the very first settlers in the hamlet of Rome.
That mill was never built. Little’s original mill burned under mysterious circumstances
The grist stones, donated by the late Maurice Little, are preserved at the village near the Rogier oven.

Shubael Little’s first wife, Easther, is buried at the village.
Little was a Union patriot and both of his sons served in the Civil War. His son, Samuel, apparently died
at St. Louis hospital but the fate of son Issac is, so far, unknown.