Tents or Tipis?

[YurtGirl]

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Originally posted by Hotzcatz

The term "cane house" is interchangeable with "plantation house" and "camp house". The first ones were built by the sugar cane companies using company workers and building the houses on company property. They were small houses which would occasionally get relocated on a flatbed truck. Each sugar company had a specific style or set of plans they would use and they would make lines of identical houses on small lots for the company workers to live in.

The houses would be in groups out in the sugar cane fields so the folks wouldn't have to commute very far to work. Considering a lot of field work was still done with mules when the whole camp house system was started, I don't think folks really wanted to commute very far. Each camp would have their own little store, usually a gym, tennis court or other athletic sport field, some camps had a dispensary for medicine, our camp had a really good theater but it's gone now.

Hicks Homes built a lot of similar types homes although I don't think they constructed them for the cane companies.

And to get back to the original subject, I don't think the cane companies ever built yurts but they did have a few grass shacks way back when.

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Thank you Hotzcatz, for trying to end the hijack of the conversation! Just a note though, the initial post wasn't about yurts this time... [] It's about tents and tipis. I realize that many people have land and are still paying rent and sometimes even a yurt might be out of people's price range. Because our manufacturers also make an excellent quality tents and tipis, I thought I'd pass that along. The link again, www.coloradoyurt.com
Go to gallery to see some great photos.
My aim is to help people quit paying rent and get onto their land. In our wonderful climate we don't have to pay a ton of money on rent if we have land. With a tent or tipi that will last 10 - 15 years, it leaves plenty of room to build something more permanent leisurly and carefully.