The document summarizes the cultural memory preserved in the vernacular architecture of Doran's Cove, Alabama. It describes the traditional I-house and log cabin structures built by local families using folk techniques passed down over generations. As the cove became less isolated due to infrastructure changes and population shifts, the traditional folk buildings were replaced by modern structures, representing a loss of cultural memory in the landscape. The document explores how kinship and connections to the land were expressed through the placement and naming of buildings.

1. Doran’s Cove: Cultural Memory in the Landscape By Rebecca Fowler

2. Doran’s Cove, Alabama Doran’s Cove

4. Source Areas and Routes of Diffusion Modified from Fred Kniffen, Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion, 1965

5. Log Notching Styles Full dovetail notch V notch Half dovetail notch Saddle notch

6. Traditional I-house

7. Alabama state map, c. 1882

8. Orme Depot, now abandoned

9. Payne Family Cabin Photograph by Luke Armistead

10. Vernacular Classification System: B: Oh. I don’t know. I know something that’s happening now. Tommy Rowark’s building a new log house over there on his place. That’s how Toby got his back hurt, he was over there helping him. C: Where’s he building it? B: Back in that Smith place . C: Oh back in there. B: You remember. Where all them old houses used to be? C: Yeah. B: Well they’re building a two-story log house over there. Kinship association with the land Size (number of stories) Building material Builder/owner

11. Payne Smokehouse Photograph by Gerald Smith

12. Newton/Doran House, c. 1956 Photograph courtesy of Cynthia Newton

14. Payne Cabin, untouched since 1824 Photograph by Gerald Smith

15. Jolly Cabin, in restoration process Photograph by Luke Armistead

16. Doran’s Cove Church

18. “ Uh, let’s see going out of here you’ll pass my son’s house is on your left going out and the trailer’s on the curve there, then you go around that curve there’s a big new house been built out here on the field, that’s a Grider’s there. Then you go down and Toby Gri - uh, Toby Samples lives in a little house up on a hill and then out in front of him’s a new house been built which is Allan Raulston, and then is Allan – uh, Randall Whyler’s house, and then that little ol’ barn sitting out there just in front of it, and then Jean’s is that house right on around there .” - Edna Payne

19. “ Uh, let’s see going out of here you’ll pass my son’s house is on your left going out and the trailer’s on the curve there, then you go around that curve there’s a big new house been built out here on the field, that’s a Grider’s there. Then you go down and Toby Gri - uh, Toby Samples lives in a little house up on a hill and then out in front of him’s a new house been built which is Allan Raulston, and then is Allan – uh, Randall Whyler’s house, and then that little ol’ barn sitting out there just in front of it, and then Jean’s is that house right on around there .” - Edna Payne

20. County Road sign, indicating kinship association between Ridley and the land

22. Newton/Doran House

23. The End Major James Doran’s tombstone, Doran’s Cove Cemetery