That's an interesting barn, Mike. I gather it was primarily winter
cover, so the horse work could go on year-round. My wife's grandfather
broke horses, but he was a little further east, in Idaho and the Dakotas.
The Franklin County Tennessee Historical Page says our barns were built
by German-Swiss farmers who settled in the region. The last time I was
through there, the barns were gone, but there was a German bakery in the
area, which had products that are hard to find. When we first came here
in the 1950s, there was a German bakery up on the mountain that made
Salt Rising Bread. I ate it most mornings at breakfast, but it can no
longer be found. As the family members aged, the bakery disappeared.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 2/16/2016 1:18 PM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
Interesting about round barns Jim. They have mostly disappeared here
too. I know of only two in this region. One is in the Palouse and
looks quite different from the picture. The other is in E-OR only a
few miles from where the YeeHaw-dists were holed up. The Jensen family
owns it now and it is open to the public. He and I went to the same
high school. Interesting early OR history.
<http://www.interisland.net/watershed/Albums/old%20buildings/slides/J-barn006.html>
Mike
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