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From Broad Axe to Clay Chinking
Nukko Lake
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Andrew Allen and his wife May homesteaded at Nukko Lake in October, 1927. The Allens had seven children, five boys and two daughters, one of which died in 1918 from the Spanish flu. This cabin was built in 1933 or '34 on the Allen property. When Frank, the youngest, got married in 1936, Andrew gave him the farm. Andrew stayed with them at first but then moved into his cabin.
At one time the Allens had a large garden, stretching along the lakefront for quite a piece. The first part of the garden was raspberries, then strawberries. The strawberries were grown to sell in town before the sawmills came in after the war in 1945. They grew garden vegetables, including potatoes and turnips and mangels that they chopped up for the cattle. No grain was grown. They had lots of butter, eggs, and milk, so only had to buy the staples, flour, salt, and sugar.
Andrew Allen had been a trapper and the boys followed in his footsteps. The Old Age Pension, which started at seventy, was only twenty dollars a month. Andrew Allen passed away at eighty-four years of age. The old cabin, it's roof partly caved in, is still standing on the shore of Nukko Lake, surrounded and almost hidden, by the large trees that grow there.
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