Here's a great site to visit, especially a good one for me since I not only like old wooden barns, but also live in McHenry County, Illinois.
We have a barn group called the McHenry County Historical Barn Preservation Association which is quite active in working to save McHenry's rapidly decreasing number of barns. They are falling into disrepair and also being torn down as more and more farms become subdivisions are commercial areas.
They've had five barn tours now, most recently last month where they visited eleven barns. There are lots of barn pictures in the gallery section.
As a matter of fact, today we are taking out boat to a barn west of Hebron for winter storage. One barn on our way to Woodstock on Ringwood Road is half fallen in and another on 120 was torn down. A great one with a boo face on the side was torn down or collapsed on Miller Road.
Great website at www.mchenrycountybarns.org.
The group was established in 1997.
Save That Old Barn!! --Cooter
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