Often, the houses looked like two cabins, connected by a roofed-over porch called a dog trot. Sometimes, the houses were built like a small dormitory one hallway with rooms branching off from it. That style was called a shotgun house, because it would be possible to shoot through the front door and have the shot pass out the back without hitting the wall of a room. Claire wrote in one of the exhibit panels. Not every pioneer in Florida could justifiably be called a Cracker.
Pioneers move into a new territory and develop it.
They bring in churches, schools, railroads and various other trappings of civilization. Crackers might settle into a new territory, but they are too self-reliant and independent to need everything that development brings. For example, Ohio natives Matthias Day and his son Loomis certainly qualify as pioneers, but nobody ever calls them Crackers. In the early 1870s, the Days settled on a deserted parcel of land on the west bank of the Halifax River. They began developing a town, attracting other settlers, mostly from northern states.