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Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings. The chickee style of architecture—palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame—was adopted by Seminoles during the Second (1835–42) and Third (1855-58) Seminole Wars as U.S. troops pushed them deeper into the Everglades and surrounding territory
The jacal (həˈkɑːl; Mexican Spanish from Nahuatl xacalli contraction of xamitl calli; literally "hut") is an adobe-style housing structure historically found throughout parts of the Southwestern United States and Mexico. [1]
She decides to go on all the trips that she'd ever wanted to take, and taker her family with her as they visit seven different places: The Yukon, The Bahamas, California, Budapest, Cyprus, New York, and Sanibel & Captiva Island. She also decides to make her backyard a relaxing area with a Chickee hut.
Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people Interior of a longhouse with Chief Powhatan (detail of John Smith map, 1612). Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America.
Guests at the 55,000-acre Big Cypress Seminole Indian_Reservation can stay in chickees, traditional wooden huts with thatched roofs. Some of the huts snuggle up to the swamp_waters -- and ...
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Hilton Head’s iconic beach bar, the Tiki Hut, is reopening May 24 with a larger structure and expanded live music, food, drink and lounging options, according to Beach House general manager Jay ...
The Florida Maritime Museum is located on almost 4 acres of land that include native plant gardens, fountains, a chickee hut, historic structures, and maritime objects. The grounds are open to the public from dusk to dawn. The Cortez Rural Graded Schoolhouse in the 1920s. Photo courtesy of Manatee County Public Library System.