 Greenbo Lake State Resort Park Greenup County, Kentucky Most barns around here are covered with boards, but this one is an open-air style sort of like would have been used to hang tobacco. On the ground floor, it looks like some animals had once been kept there. You can see a couple of old license plates that are completely rust covered but can be made out to be from the 1920s. To me, the interesting part of it is the hand hewn marks that the farmer left in the beams. It's believable that the tree could have been a sapling when Thomas Jefferson was still alive, might have been cut around the time that the Titanic sunk, and has still far outlived the farmer that built the barn. I've uploaded a few more pictures from the old house & barn HERE. (updated with a spelling fix. In reference to the wood, isn't it interesting that we often view ourselves as being the more permanent part of the landscape and the trees are all temporary, when in fact, the opposite could be viewed as being a bit more true? Bob, yes I had thought it was most likely Chestnut and worth a pretty penny on the salvage market. Hope wood rustlers don't see my picture!) Comment (2) | Permalink |
4x6photo.com | Hand hewn barn beams | 03 March, 2006
