Gelot Théodore Gelot and Eugène Ménard were the first original settlers of the future town of Legal. They built what later became known as "le caveau". This was four foot hole, twenty feet wide (ten feet on each side of their boundary line. Four foot log walls were added and they topped it with a sod roof. The temporary home sheltered them for the winter and met the government regulations of living in a home for six months. Many other followed the same route, while their own houses were being built