Thoreau research

Thoreau’s cabin: http://shelterseeker.blogspot.com/2008/02/thoreaus-little-house-at-walden-pond.html

matierlas:

• Boards: $8.04 “mostly shanty boards” ($800)
• Refuse shingles for roof and sides: $4.00 ($400)
• Laths (strips of wood for plaster to adhere to): $1.25 ($125)
• Two second-hand windows with glass: $2.43 ($243)
• One thousand old bricks: $4.00 ($400)
• Two casts of lime: $2.40. ($240) “That was high. ” (A “cast” is an old measurement, lime being “cast” out from a mold.)
• Hair: $0.31. “More than I needed” ($30 of hair is more than we need today, too!)
• Mantle-tree iron (Iron for the Fireplace?): $0.15 ($15)
• Nails: $3.90 ($390)
• Hinges and screws: $0.14 ($14)
• Latch: $0.10 ($10)
• Chalk: $0.01 ($1)
• Transportation: $1.40. “I carried a good part on my back.” ($140)

In all: $28.13 ($2,800)