It is amazing the things a person can learn in the course of reading fiction. I had come across the term shotgun house numerous times but apparently was never near my computer so today was my first chance to look it up.Shotgun houses are a narrow,usually no more than 12 feet wide rectangular residence with doors at each end. Found mainly in the Southern US they are also found in other states IL. and CA. included. These houses consist of 3-5 rooms in a row with no hallways. There are a couple of thoughts on how they got their name,the most popular being you could fire a shotgun through the front door and the pellets would fly cleanly out the back door,another thought is the name was taken from African heritage word to-gun which means place of assembly.
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