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Samuel Heighway came into this area as early as 1792 with the surveying party.This cabin could have been built on a trip into this area, previous to 1797, when Heighway and Dr. Evan Banes made a permanent settlement in Waynesville. It seems logical that this was a pre-settlement building, possibly as early as 1792.

The cabin was located north of the old Cincinnati-Columbus Road, and on the west side of Newman's run, close by the 1840 narrow gauge railroad grade. This was just north of the three bridges and south of Waynesville. The Cincinnati-Columbus Road roughly followed the old Harmar's trace.

This building had been lived in continuously until it was partially burned in 1971. It could have been the oldest inhabited cabin in Ohio.

Samuel Heighway later built a mill on Newman's run, just east of this cabin. This cabin was made of small logs so they could have been lifted by hand. Larger logs were raised up an incline of green poles by man power, oxen or horses. The building was moved and reconstructed on it's current site by the CCPV.

The Store occupies the early Harrias-Poe house from New Jasper-Paintersville Road, east of the Caesar's Creek valley. This early 1800's log building was given to the Village by the Hollingsworth family near Paintersville, and was moved here in 1977.

Village members, the Harold Fugett family, took this house under their wing. The Fugett's finished it, set it up, and tended it as a Country Store for a number of years. It currently operates as the CCPV's Volunteer Office and Gift Shop, with all sales profits going back to the Villages' Restoration fund.

The school house has been restored from a building that came from near Harveysburg on Jonahs Run. It may have been close to Hugh Tates mill, also located on Jonah's Run.

Schools were established very early in the 1800's, as soon as a small community developed. These were subscription schools financed by local people. Some early teachers were paid sixty cents a day. Early pioneer schools were small in size, with little furniture, light on comfort.

Some believe this small log cabin was the early settler's cabin of Levi Lukens, used by his family while he built his 2 ½ story house across the Village Green here.This small cabin came from Levi Lukens land in the valley below the Pioneer Village site.

It was typical for settlers to build a small settler's cabin close to water in which to live while building a larger home. There would be a well near the home, so it could be built farther from the lake or stream.