read Champion Drill Co., Avon, NY, - USA
While examining my find, I suddenly realized that I was standing in the middle of what, at one time, was an old barn foundation. The massive stones that made up the foundation indicated that it had been a very large barn.
It’s not uncommon to travel through Pennsylvania’s mountains and come across these old foundations, and when I do I walk around the perimeter, picturing the type of barn and why it had been built in that spot.
Lastly, I wonder how and why the barn came to this point of deterioration; what the farmer’s hopes and disappointments were; whether the farm prospered and the fate of the family. Today, working farms are rapidly disappearing from rural America. Some of the barns remain as monuments to a way of life that will never again be experienced on such a grand scale. Most barns were built to last so it’s not uncommon to see a barn standing in the middle of a housing development.