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13. Old Gaskin HomesteadGaskin Still Road off Highway 71
This house was part of the original Gaskin Homestead and was built by George W. Gaskin, Sr., around the turn of the century. When George and his wife Kate died it became the home of their eldest daughter Bell Gaskin Cumbie and her family. Today it is owned by Charlie A. Gaskin, Jr. The house was built in old dog-trot style, with the kitchen built away from the main house and two bedrooms in the front. One half of the house has been removed and is about ½ mile down Gaskin Still Rd. toward Hwy. 71. Captain Dave Maddox remembers the Gaskins and their turpentine still. As a small boy in 1924 or 1925 he traveled with his parents and his mother’s brother Everett McFarland back to the McFarland home in Frink. Captain Maddox recalls, “The Gaskins had a turpentine still where the road goes to Dalkeith, and they used mules in the turpentine woods pulling their wagons around. As we were approaching the area some of our dogs had gotten ahead of our wagon and all of a sudden they were barking….There were turpentine houses on each side of the road where people had dogs and hogs. That incident got the dogs barking. Of course when we got up there they started fighting. Daddy had to jump out and hold the mule until Uncle Everett could get out and hold the mule. Mama was holding me, afraid the mule was going to run away. Finally we got the dogs separated and kicked and got out of there and went on up to Honeyville."
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