Oklahoma Historical Society: Sod House Museum The Marshall McCully Sod House is Oklahoma’s only remaining sod home. Built in 1894, the home is located in Alfalfa County in Aline - thirty miles west of Enid, Oklahoma. Marshall McCully poses in front of his sod home Marshall McCully took part in the land run in September of 1893, when the Cherokee Outlet opened for settlement. After securing his homestead, McCully lived in a dugout on a creek bank while constructing the sod home using buffalo prairie earth blocks in August of 1894. A team of horses pulled a sod plow and cut the earth into long rows. A flat shovel was then used to cut the rows into 18 inch blocks. The blocks were stacked like bricks to form walls, rafters were made with the timber and also covered with sod. Finally, McCully plastered the interior of the two-room home with an alkali clay. The McCully family lived in the “soddy” until 1909 when they built a two-story farm house. The sod dwelling was used and
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