81. Buildings Click here to learn more about our barns, Lodges and Pavilion range. other farmapplications are catered for with more specialized buildings. http://www.ranbuild.com.au/buildings.html

82. The Old House Web Preservation Of Historic Barns in the overall farm economy, including increasing farm size and This story encouragesthe preservation of historic barns and other agricultural structures http://www.oldhouseweb.com/oldhouse/content/npsbriefs/brief20.asp

What's New The Weather HOME How-To ... General Issues The Preservation of Historic Barns Barns evoke a sense of tradition and security, of closeness to the land and to the people who built them. Barn Types How to Maintain, Repair or Preserve Barns Using Barns for Housing Personal Reflections By Michael J. Auer A mid-19th century barn in Litchfield, Maine From the days when Thomas Jefferson envisioned the new republic as a nation dependent on citizen farmers for its stability and its freedom, the family farm has been a vital image in the American consciousness. As the main structures of farms, barns evoke a sense of tradition and security, of closeness to the land and community with the people who built them. Even today the rural barn raising presents a forceful image of community spirit. Just as many farmers built their barns before they built their houses, so too many farm families look to their old barns as links with their past. Old barns, furthermore, are often community landmarks and make the past present. Such buildings embody ethnic traditions and local customs; they reflect changing farming practices and advances in building technology. In the imagination they represent a whole way of life.

83. FO Broch / Farm Building & FPP - AAIS Covers additional farm dwellings, barns and portable buildings and structures, otherfarm buildings and structures and tenant's improvements in farm buildings. http://www.aais.org/Ins_lines/fo_broch/fobfb.htm

Program Description Forms Listing Status Report Bulletin Update ... Affiliation List Farmowners Brochure Farm Buildings and Farm Personal Property Coverages Principal Coverages Loss Settlement Provisions Incidental Coverages Perils Insured Against ... Coverage Options To streamline the policy assembly process, coverages for farm structures and scheduled and unscheduled farm property have been combined into one form. Principal Coverages The following farm property coverages apply when limits are indicated on the declarations or on a schedule. Coverage E - Farm Barns, Buildings and Structures Covers additional farm dwellings, barns and portable buildings and structures, other farm buildings and structures and tenant's improvements in farm buildings. The limit shown for each covered item includes attached sheds and fixtures. Coverage F - Scheduled Farm Personal Property Covers described classes or items of farm personal property for a specific limit. Coverage G - Unscheduled Farm Personal Property Covers farm personal property on a blanket basis. The limit must be shown on the declarations page.

84. Barn Links encourages the restoration of historic barns and other agricultural structures anAmerican Icon To traditional farmers, barns are the soul of the farm. http://www.lincolnne.com/nonprofit/nhc/barnagainlinks.html

Related Websites Barn History Barn Photos Barn Sketches Barn Literature ... Barn Again! Preservation of Historic Barns This National Park Service publication on the history and preservation of barns encourages the restoration of historic barns and other agricultural structures, whether as agricultural buildings or for new uses. Museum on Main Street Museum on Main Street is a partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils and small rural museums in an effort to serve rural audiences. Barn Again! Celebrating an American Icon To traditional farmers, barns are the soul of the farm. To the general public, barns represent both our rural past and our agricultural present. This exhibition was developed by the National Building Museum in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has been adapted for travel by SITES. Rural Heritage Program Part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Rural Heritage Program is dedicated to the recognition and protection of rural historic and cultural resources. Through educational programs, publications, and technical assistance, the Rural Heritage Program supports the efforts of rural communities to preserve and live with their heritage. Nebraska Governor's Task Force on Agriculture and Natural Resources Education The task force provides leadership to integrate agricultural and natural resources literacy into the lives of all Nebraskans from pre-kindergarten throughout life and stimulates preparation of a more diverse, competitive and productive workforce for our agriculture and natural resources systems to enhance the well-being of the state and its citizens.

85. Community Development The workshop will assist participants to evaluate their historic barns and otherfarm buildings and learn how to restore them for other agricultural uses. http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~geau/cd/cd.htm

County Home Page All About Community Development in Geauga County Program Information Barn Again ... County Government Users Guide Community Development Welcome to the Geauga County Community Development Program Barbara H. James Extension Agent Community Development You can e-mail me here at: james.186@osu.edu All About Community Development in Geauga County Communities are constantly faced with choosing priorities and allocating resources to meet identified priorities. Ohio State University Extension, Community Development helps individuals and communities to identify and meet local needs with useful information, educational programs, planning and practical implementation through collaborative efforts with individuals, organizations and groups to enhance the well being of communities. Geauga County Extension office targets the following issues with educational programming: Maintaining the county's rural nature by assisting public officials in their planning processes. Maintaining and creating a profitable retail based agricultural industry. Assisting in the establishment of sound local small businesses.

86. Barn Owl number of rodents drawn to stored harvest crops. The erection of barnsand other farm buildings provided additional nesting sites. http://www.sbap.org.uk/focal/birds/barnowl.htm

Barn Owl Tyto alba (Scopoli) The barn owl is a familiar bird, famed for it rasping screech which accounts for its other name the 'screech owl'. Its heart shaped face and almost totally white appearance when perched or in flight makes it very distinctive. Barn owls require large areas of open rough grassland to hunt for small mammal prey, and quiet farm buildings or tree cavities to nest and roost in. The barn owl has an almost global distribution and has lived in close proximity to humans since settlements and farming created suitable nesting places. Farming practices have enabled the birds to hunt the increasing number of rodents drawn to stored harvest crops. The erection of barns and other farm buildings provided additional nesting sites. This bird used to be a regular sight seen flying over the British countryside, but sadly over the last 60 years barn owl populations have declined dramatically. This is primarily due to losses of both foraging and nesting habitat. 1. Selection Criteria UK BAP Species of Conservation Concern. SBAP Species 2. Key Habitat

87. Altona A driveway leading to the mansion house and other farm buildingsbegins at an entrance through the fence east of the buildings. http://www.preservehistory.org/altona.htm

Altona EVENTS Saturday Oct. 12 Sunday Oct. 13 BARNS Altona Blakeley Bowers Elmwood ... RETURN TO LANDMARKS HOME PAGE BARN PHOTOGRAPHS East Side South Side West Side North Side Altona Residence, ca. 1793-1936 Altona is a large sprawling farm that spreads across both sides of State Route 51 in Charles Town. The farm is clearly defined by a mid-nineteenth century stone fence along both sides of the road. A driveway leading to the mansion house and other farm buildings begins at an entrance through the fence east of the buildings. The drive circles around to the federal-style house regally situated on a knoll where there is a spectacular view across farmland to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Farm dependencies lie behind and beside the house and to the west down from the knoll a huge 19th century barn dominates other farm buildings. Mansion House, ca. 1793-1936 The mansion house has experienced two severe alterations to its 1793 original structure. These alterations have significantly changed its original weatherboard farm house appearance to today's sophisticated classical brick mansion. The five bay, white painted flemish bond brick mansion on limestone foundation has a slate hip roof with pairs of gabled dormers at the south and east elevations and a central dormer at the southern section of the west elevation. Pairs of large chimneys pierce the roof at the east and west elevations. The white painted cornice is unadorned. The original part of the house, ca. 1793, is the rear section of the mansion. It was a weather-board six room house with a storage room in the basement.

88. Dbps the center of historic farm activity during this period, providing housing for farmanimals, a Dutch barns are different from other historic barns in http://www.schist.org/dbps.shtml

THE DUTCH BARN PRESERVATION SOCIETY Dedicated to the Study and Preservation of New World Dutch Barns The Society The Dutch Barn Preservation Society was organized in 1985 and incorporated in 1986 by the Regents of the State of New York as a not-for-profit organization by barn owners, historians, and other concerned individuals alarmed by the barns' rapid disappearance. Membership has grown steadily since the Society's inception, making new preservation initiatives possible. The Dutch Barn Preservation Society sponsors recording projects, educational barn tours, and publications, and is a source of technical and historical information. Members have been instrumental in preserving and restoring threatened barns, and are continually exploring opportunities to offer technical advice and financial assistance. Officers for 2000-2001 are: President Christopher Albright Vice-president Ned Pratt Secretary Amelia Andersen Treasurer Robert Andersen Other Trustees Keith Cramer, Starlyn D'Angelo, Bob Hedges, Neil Larson, Roger Scheff, Peter Sinclair

89. Farming, Then & Now Most of the farming is in grain. All fences, barns and other farm buildingsnot needed have been torn down and the ground planted to corn or soybean. http://www.leroy.org/Farming, Then & Now.htm

Breaking prairie was done with a wooden moldboard bar-shear, which had to be built heavy and strong to withstand the great strain put upon it. It took four or five yoke of oxen to pull the wooden plow through the tough roots of the prairie grass. It was a good day’s work to plow just two acres. A far cry from today’s mechanized farming where 30 to 80 acres can be plowed in a day. Crops were hand cut with a sickle and later with a cradle. Early development of farming implements around the1830s saw the steel plows; cultivators, planters, reapers and threshers all reach this area by the late 1850s. Some of the early machinery did not work to the satisfaction of area farmers, so, with the help of a blacksmith, they added to, took off or remade parts. Such was the case of the inventors of the corn conveyor. Conveyors are still in use today along with the few corn shellers to be found. A large portion of the prairies was untillable for want of drainage in the early years. Sloughs and ponds were everywhere. They were home for wild ducks, geese, muskrats, and frogs and also for propagation of fever and ague. Attempts were made to drain land with open ditches and the mole ditch. In 1876 the first tile was laid. By 1890 drainage laws had been passed and tiling was a general thing. Laying new tile and repairing the old has been a continuing process ever since. Tiling caused a remarkable change in the land, turning the ponds and swamps into rich and productive fields. Horses gradually took the place of oxen. By Civil War days horses were being imported for breeding purposes and horse raising became an important business.

90. Settlements And Farmsteads the front, birch trees near the barns, rowan trees their farms than in the otherethnic regions Zemaitian farm buildings were rather large, sturdy, of medium http://www.lfcc.lt/publ/thelt/node13.html

Next: Food Previous: EVERYDAY LIFE Settlements and farmsteads Most of the rural inhabitants live in their own detached houses. There are a lot of prefabricated houses, turned out by the Alytus construction plant, which look very much alike. Recently, however., farm houses have become more varied, a considerable number of them being built according to individual and rather original projects. As a rule, in rural settlements dwelling houses face the street or the road. There is usually a front garden planted with decorative shrubs and flowers. Sometimes we can also see a drive leading to a garage under the house, but this is only in houses built quite recently. At the back there is usually a fenced farmyard with an outbuilding where the farmer may keep a cow, several pigs, some poultry and the fodder. More often than not there is a chain dog, the traditional guard of one-family houses. While traveling along the roads of Lithuania one can often see lonely oaks or groups of untended fruit trees growing in the middle of a vast field. They are the remnants of the former farmsteads abandoned by their owners many of whom have forcibly been moved to the settlements against their own free will. Here and there one can still spot a lonely house the owners of which, for better or worse, have been allowed to stay in their old place of residence. Today typical specimens of ethnic farmsteads can be seen in the open-air Country Life Museum at Rumsiskes, founded in 1966 off the Vilnius-Kaunas highway. There are also several old villages and farmsteads which have been conserved and protected by the state. There we can see the traditional Lithuanian scenery which has been cherished and cared for by several generations and without which we could not understand the spiritual and material culture of the Lithuanians.

91. Outdoor Talk The first time I walked Offa's Dyke I was struck by the number of barns and otherfarm buildings which were dotted around the British countryside, some of http://www.completeoutdoors.co.uk/pages/articles/_art0005.htm

92. Virginia Building Systems farm buildings Presenting a professional image for your agribusinesscan have a tremendous impact on the success of your farm. http://www.vabuilding.com/farm.html

Small Horse Barns Large Horse Barns Stalls Farm Buildings ... About Us FARM BUILDINGS Presenting a professional image for your agri-business can have a tremendous impact on the success of your farm. With the help of the professionals at Virginia Building Systems, we can provide a structure that is both functional and attractive. By using only the finest materials, VBS conveys a commitment to the Central Virginia region that your image is as important as our own. In addition, we are dedicated to building methods that symbolize superior structural fitness. Rest assured, your facility will stand the test of time and all seasons. Call VBS for an assessment of your needs. Email us here Friends of Virginia Building Systems Current Job Home VIRGINIA BUILDING SYSTEMS All RightsReserved. 2002

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