The great barn

This barn is BIG.  It was built by enslaved workers for the Stagville plantation in 1860.  It was one of the largest agricultural buildings in the South.  

It takes a lot of tobacco to fill a barn this size.

 

barn

A little barn under some very tall trees.

More old buildings

An old log house on the farm property I showed yesterday.  Maybe the cookhouse?  or the original homestead?

And here is another barn on the property.  It's covered in corrigated metal, but might be a log building underneath.  It looks like it's still being used for storage.

Old farm buildings

 

This place is a curiosity to me.  You can see the buildings from the greenway, but they're posted no trespassing.  Someone lives in a newer house toward the street on the other side of the property.  This barn looks very old.  The building below looks like worker's quarters, slave or sharecroppers?

Carolina Barn

As my husband pointed out, this barn could only be built in the South.  An Iowa or Minnesota barn would never have such a flat roof pitch on the sides.  The first snowfall would crush anything below the too flat roof.  Which would be too bad, here is a treasure in the barn, an old Ford tractor.

The barn is part of the Historic Oak View County Park.