They made the floor out of the puncheons, turned with the smooth side upward, and the roof out of rough boards, sawed from the trees.

The chimney was built of earth and stones, and a great flat stone served as the fireplace.

Some of the houses were large enough to have two rooms, one for the grown folks and one for the children, and Mr.Ware's also had a little lean-to or shed which served as a kitchen.
It seemed at first to Henry, rejoicing then in the warm, sunny weather, that they were building in a needlessly heavy and solid fashion.

But when he thought over it a while he remembered what Ross said about the winters and deep snows of this new land.

Indeed the winters in Kentucky are often very cold and sometimes for certain periods are quite as cold as those of New York or New England.
When the little town was finished at last it looked both picturesque and comfortable, a group of about thirty log houses, covering perhaps an acre of ground.