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door for his bride, Pauline, and carried her across the threshold on their wedding night. The house had 7 rooms, six fireplaces, and 12 closets. It remained her home until she was over ninety years old. Then came the home of v mill supervisor, Luthor Russ, the Baptist Church, (sketch in this book), the home of Dr. J. Q.Fountain, M.D., Dr. Calvin Fountain, druggest, Alva Honea, the Campbell family, Ralph Howze, Harold -Weston, another Casanova family, John Howze, Rene Sacerdotte, George Roch, Joe Howze, Deans Store and Chris Favre.
The old Koch homestead lay some distance eastward past the crossroad, among very large amellia trees. It was built by Christian 'Koch, a native of Denmark whose facinating
7	diary is availablevat-~t-he library. The house ' was lived, in by Nettie Koch until her death 94 years of age in 1955.^^-^ If you return to the river and once more proceed eastward, along the south (right) side of Main street were the homes of Coburn Weston, Judge Freeman Jones, the Marquez Family, Arthur Marshall, the Jopes family (in whose home was the telephone exchange), the Holleman family, Lamar Otis, John W. Baxter and the Methodist Church across from the cemetery. Then came the Sidney Otis family (V. P. of the mill), the Methodist Parsonage, Alfonse Evans (son of Dr. Thomas Evans of Bay °t. Louis), Jim Mitchell and the silent movie ...uuse. Next, the Masonic Hall and recreation hall stood across the street from the Baptist Church. Then came the homes of the Parker family, John Weston, Harry Baxter, Elliot Casanova, Jules Casanova, Jense Nelson and William Koch. Also, there were other homes scattered back from the street and along the river, but of all of these mentioned, only the Logtown Cemetery jremains. ,
The first sawmill built in Logtown of which we have record was a small one erected by slave labor in 1845. A larger mill was soon built by E. G. Goddard of Michigan.