Cantonment:

Roy Hyatt Environmental Center Dog Trot House

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The Center provides field trips which focus upon wetlands, life on a 19th century dogtrot home and schoolhouse, the natural history museum, the pollution/recycling museum, the school bus bird blind, trail tours, and the microscope laboratory. Dog trot homes were constructed from the early 1800's through the 1930's, mainly in the Southeastern United States, using logs, lumber, stone and brick. Construction of the house took place in 1988 by students and teachers of the evening carpentry and masonry classes of the George Stone Vocational-Technical School. The original home no longer exists. Many of the furnishings were donated by Dr. Betty Hyatt, wife of Roy. The rest of the furnishings were purchased with donations from members of the Environmental Studies Center Associates and Friends of the Center.