Project Scroll Research Note 2026-43: The Pioneer Log Cabin's first season in print, 1923: Log Hauling Day, the name "Cass County Historical society," Harmon's souvenir song, the grand opening of 17 October and the cabin's own song

The Pioneer Log Cabin at Cassopolis, Michigan, is usually described from the cabin's own papers, compiled in 2012: logs hauled on 4 April 1923, the cabin raised on 23 May, dedicated on Pioneer Day, 20 June 1923, and opened as a museum on 18 June 1924. Five records of 1923 fill in that first season. A Cassopolis report of 6 April says that about eighty farmers came to town "Thursday" (5 April, not the Wednesday announced) with "auto trucks, teams and tractors," paraded behind two bands and took logs of six kinds of wood to the fair grounds, "for the cabin to be erected by the Cass County Historical society": the earliest use of that short name yet found. On 16 June the Society's secretary, Charles O. Harmon, copyrighted his song "On the Winding Christianna" as a "special souvenir ed.," four days before the dedication. In September a country column announced "the grand opening day for the completed log cabin" on Wednesday, 17 October 1923, "and all the pioneer relics." And the program of "commemoration services for the Log Cabin memorial," held at the cabin on Sunday, 28 October 1923, included a song, "Old Log Cabin," with "words by Jay C. Northrup," the giver of log No. 6. Project Scroll Research Note 2026-43, version 1. The note sets out the record quoted, where it is held, what it changes, its limits, and what was searched before calling it new. Web version: projectscroll.com/discoveries/notes/2026-43/.