The Cooper Cabin Museum is the oldest museum in the Mid Ohio Valley.  The artifacts inside the cabin were donated by local families since 1899.  It truly is our community's museum.

The Henry Cooper Log Cabin originally stood on Elizabeth Pike (Mineral Wells area) in Slate District, Wood County, about nine miles from Parkersburg.  Henry Cooper of Virginia built the cabin on a plot of ground which consisted of sevral hundred acres in 1805.

In August of 1910, the City of Parkersburg purchased the cabin for $400 from Cooper descendants, F. L. Barnett and M. L. Lemasters, to be preserved as a specimen of early architecture of the white settlers in this region.  It is blieved to be the first two-story cabin in this area.  The original cabin contained a large living room, two bedrooms and two porches.  The cabin is considered a classic example of American logwork, combining hand hewing with chinking between the logs.  The gabled roof and rectangle design typifies the basic American loghouse design.

It was dismantled log by log and rebuilt in the City Park on the present site where it now stands in 1910 -- the year it was purchased.  In 1962 a new kitchen and porch was added.  The cabin was place on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.  The cabin was granted to the Daughters of American Pioneers in 1911.  It is maintained by them and is open to the public during the summer.  It is open on Sundays from Memorial Day through Labor Day from 1:00 until 4:00 and by appointment.