Charles Beard, who goes by "Doc", wants to donate a cabin from his Mint Hill property to the Mint Hill Historical Society. If the move is made later this year, it would bring the facilities building total up to five, joining a country doctor's museum, a country store, a one-room schoolhouse, and a gold assay office.

Beard paid $1000 some 33 years ago to have the cabin moved from a piece of land in Davidson. His mother, a history buff, decorated the cabin with antiques and even hosted meetings of the Daughters of the American Revolution in it. Charles added electricity, heat, air conditioning, a covered front porch, chimney and two rooms during during the cabins life at it's Lebanon Road location.

The cabin can be dated to at least as old as the 1850's as a letter dating to that era was found in a crack between a log and window. There is also handwriting on the wall of a closet with dates in the 1860-1870 range.

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