beacause they needed a home
There is no specific individual who is credited with building the first log cabin. However, the first log cabin's location was in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
Delaware.
The first log cabin was invented by this Indian guy name Raj Kumar Gupta. He had moved to Scandinavia with his wife, his 2 sons, and his daughter. He needed a home so he built a log cabin even though it took him days.
1683 by the Swedish immigrants in America
Andrew Jackson was the first president who lived on the frontier and lived in log cabins from time to time. He may have been born in a log cabin, but if not, he must have lived in a log cabin after he moved to western Tennessee. He was the first who might have been called a "log cabin president".
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Not exactly Andrew Johnson was the 17th president and he was born in a cabin in Raleigh, NC, that was part of an inn. It was not a typical log cabin. It may have been built of logs, but siding was added to the outside, so it did not look like a log cabin. See the related link for a replica that has been built on the site of his birthplace.
Andrew Jackson was the first US President to live in a log cabin. Jackson was the seventh President of the United States.
In the colonial Age
when you draw a log cabin first draw a house than start adding logs every where this is one i drew.
Hyde Log Cabin