1. Living in a log home in Texas was once a sign of backwardness and depravation.  Living in a log home was considered a badge of poverty and shame.
2. The social stigma of living in a log home was so great that many owners resorted to creating brick siding (even artificial brick siding) to cover up their log walls!
3. Lyndon Johnson once stressed his humble beginnings by claiming to have been born in a log cabin in Johnson City. (It’s not true, he was born in a frame house.) But LBJ State Park does have many restored log cabins on the property.
4. During the 1930s and 1940s, lumber companies purchased huge tracts of forest in East Texas and bulldozed hundreds of log homes because of the better tax rates afforded to property without residential structures.
   

   John Neely Bryan's log cabin in downtown Dallas. Bryan was an early founder of Dallas.

5. The Alabama-Coushatta Indians tribes in Texas lived in log homes until the 1930s.
6. As settlers moved westward into dry and sparsely treed areas of West Texas, log cabins became a less practical style of dwelling.
7. In 1849, a log home in Texas could be built for the price of $20 to $75. The cabin that cost $20 was a simple lot hut measuring 18 feet square. The $75 home contained two rooms with a passageway between them.
8. The log cabin didn’t originate in America, although it is considered as American as apple pie. In fact, the most common form of construction came to Pennsylvania by way of regions in Germany and Czechoslovakia. Even Swedish settlers , who had their own tradition of log home construction, used Pennsylvania-German techniques.
9. Log cabins were commonplace in Europe until the 14^th century, when many forest lands were cleared.
10. Log construction was common in Mexico and New Mexico, but Mexican style log cabins had little influence on Texas settlers.
11. Log cabin construction boomed in Texas during the Great Depression, since log cabins provided simple but affordable housing.
12. The town of Log Cabin, Texas has a population of 733 people. It is located in northeast Texas in the county of Henderson.

Sources:

http://www.texasindians.com/albam.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_cabin

http://www.amazon.com/Texas-Log-Buildings-Folk-Architecture/dp/0292780516