Dog Trot House

A dogtrot puts two main rooms under one roof with an open hall between them. Historically one room was for cooking and dining and the other for private living, with a chimney at each gable end, and before air conditioning the breeze ran straight through the hall. Scholars trace the type to the southern Appalachians or to the Kentucky and Tennessee frontier, though it turns up early in the South Carolina Lowcountry too. Louisiana's Dubach was named the Dogtrot Capital of the World in 1990. This one is the last original building left in Pleasant Hill.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mansfield State Historic Site — 14 mi
  A 1957 museum and three-quarter-mile trail on the ground where Confederate troops broke a Union line on April 8, 1864, in a park begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 17 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
• North Toledo Bend State Park — 23 mi
  A 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.

More markers nearby

• Sergeant John H. Cook — steps away
• Leutenant General Richard Taylor — steps away
• Headquarters Department of the Gulf / Headquarters Trans-Mississippi Dept. — 0.4 mi
• The Old Cistern — 0.4 mi