Texas Historical Marker

Torian Log Cabin

Grapevine · Tarrant County · placed 1978 · Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

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Tarrant County, Texas

The story

This cabin of hand-hewn logs was built along a creek at the edge of the cross timbers near the pioneer community of Dove. It originally stood on a headright settled in 1845 by Francis Throop, a Peters colonist from Missouri. J.C.Wiley bought the property in 1868.

He sold it in 1886 to John R. Torian (1836-1909), a farmer from Kentucky. Torian family members occupied the structure until the 1940s.

The cabin was moved about four miles to this site in 1976.

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