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Color and more recent photo of the cabin: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miller_cabin.jpg More information on this essayist, poet and adventurer can be found at: www.joaquinmiller.org/About/miller.html

On pages 385-386 of his book of memoirs, "Roadside Meetings" (1930) Hamlin Garland recalls a week he spent in Chicago in 1898, with the visiting Joaquin Miller: He [Miller] told us of his life in Washington City and of the log cabin he had built out near Rock Creek. "I made that my home for four years, but I was away much of the time. I didn't like it there. Congressmen and their silly wives wore me out. They all came to Washington as the great men in little towns, and their women, raw, silly, curious, had nothing better to do than to seek out Joaquin Miller, 'the man who lived in a tree.' They made life miserable for me and I fled."

Dedication ceremony of the reconstructed Joaquin Miller cabin, June 12, 1912: The cabin at its old location, on Washington, D. C.'s Meridian Hill, before it was dismantled and reconstructed in Rock Creek Park:

It seems the cabin is actually in Oakland California: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Miller en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Miller_cabin.jpg

Exile Bibliophile - they're two different structures. The one show here is now in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park: www.washingtonhistory.com/ScenesPast/images/SP_0607.pdf When this photo was taken, it was located on Washington's Meridian Hill, in the area now occupied by Meridian Hill Park. The cabin was moved by the Park Service in 1913.

It's now near the old Milkhouse Ford in Rock Creek Park.

On pages 385-386 of his book of memoirs, "Roadside Meetings" (1930) Hamlin Garland recalls a week he spent in Chicago in 1898, with the visiting Joaquin Miller: He [Miller] told us of his life in Washington City and of the log cabin he had built out near Rock Creek. "I made that my home for four years, but I was away much of the time. I didn't like it there. Congressmen and their silly wives wore me out. They all came to Washington as the great men in little towns, and their women, raw, silly, curious, had nothing better to do than to seek out Joaquin Miller, 'the man who lived in a tree.' They made life miserable for me and I fled."

Wystan: Love this kind of anecdotal tidbit - one that shows up in an obscure source that you'd never think to look in (or find with a keyword or subject search in a library catalog) if you were researching the subject! Interesting that he uses "the man who lived in a tree" - I wonder if this wasn't a misremembering of Miller's rant by Garland, since Miller's cabin was not far from "Airy Castle", the tree house of Allen B. Hayward, when he lived on Meridian Hill: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1907-02-17/ed-... Hayward brought a lot of curiosity-seekers to what was then otherwise a comparatively quiet part of the District.

Rochester's centennial was celebrated in 1934

Ebenezer "Indian" Allan built the area's first grist (flour) mill just north of the Genesee River's High Falls. : www.visitrochester.com/static/index.cfm?contentID=16 "Indian Allan," who was given a 100-acre plot of land on the west bank of the Genesee, if he built a mill for the use of the Indians -- was he scalawag as some claimed or were his descendents tricked out of the land that one day would be the future city of Rochester?: search.barnesandnoble.com/Rochester/Blake-McKelvey/e/9781... It was not until Ebenezer Allan (called "Indian Allan") built a saw and grist mill at the falls in 1790 that a small settlement began to grow up.: www.1911encyclopedia.org/Rochester,_New_York Ebenezer Allan at Dictionary of Canadian Biography, p.13-15: books.google.ca/books?id=evippMryHjsC&pg=PA13&lpg...

16 September 1912. See comment on www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2349130929/

1912 was the centennial of the official charter for "Rochesterville", the forerunner to the City of Rochester, which received its charter in 1834, hence the 1934 Centennial of the "City". See the City Timeline on City of Rochester website.

Well, it says the Village of Rochesterville was incorporated In March 1817 but the first permanent settler was in 1812 so I get your point: They have multiple opportunities to celebrate a "centennial" and this is likely 1912.