The Barn

This barn has stood on Rose Hill Farm since 1860. That's the date found cut into the logs on this side of the structure.

The barn was covered with clapboard and had been used up until a few years ago. This side of the barn began falling in as the logs slipped from the foundation and it became unsafe.

My father-in-law owns the barn. He listed it for sale in the paper. Someone purchased it and will move it to Bent Mountain, as I understand it, to make a log cabin of it.

These are the logs with the date "1860" carved in it. Below is the name E. E. Shaw 1901, which must be the date something was added.

Most likely the barn was built by Henry Bolton, who purchased the property in 1859. He is buried in a cemetery on the farm.

The house that stands on the land was built prior t0 1816 and is made of bricks allegedly made from slave labor on the farm.