Most of the wood used to make my frames is heart pine. Some of the wood is estimated to be as old as 200 years. The wood was originally used to build houses on Searcy Plantation, located in Butler County, Alabama, during the Civil War era. In the late forties to early fifties, some houses on the plantation were torn down and the wood used again to construct other houses for a nearby property owner. In 2006, the son of the property owner who constructed those new houses in the forties and fifties dismantled those houses and allowed me to use some of the old lumber to build my rustic frames. These frames have quite a history.