Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Come visit the Round Barn

This past Saturday was a crazy kind of weather day...it rained all morning then turned into a fine mist in the early afternoon. Jer n I decided to get out of the house and take a ride up to Arndstville Pa. It's a beautiful drive through country roads and just about 45 minutes from our house. This is also the home of the Historic Round Barn. What a neat place to visit...they sell all kinds of produce, flowers, homemade jellies and gift items.


We climbed the narrow winding steps to the second floor. What an amazing structure as you can see.



If walls could talk...bet this barn hid many a Civil war soldier.


How can you not take a photo of the cute little goats they had in a pen outside.



This is an interesting statue... the horse is named Spirit and it represents all the states who fought in the Civil War. There are nineteen blue stars representing the Union states and twelve gray stars that represents the Confederate states. Within each star are the number of casualties from each state.




Hope you enjoyed the tour and a bit of history!








10 comments:

Living Life said...

That is really cool. Perhaps FW and I can take our next MC journey to the round barn!

Driftwood and Pumpkin said...

Wow! You did a great job with your pictures! Did you drive Jer crazy?

Anonymous said...

So, when the kids needs to stand in the corner for time-out, where do you put them?
Great photos.
~sWaMpY~

Tracy said...

That looks like an interesting place to visit. good pics.

Lesley said...

That is one crazy big barn!!
How old is it?

Vicki said...

Love the goats!

Gemma Wiseman said...

That round barn is an amazing structure! Great for exploring!

Jim said...

Terrific post.
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Unknown said...

Very cool barn! I've seen them but never been in one. We used to live really close the world's largest round barn. :) Love that horse!

penny said...

That's the first round barn I've ever seen. Its really neat looking but it must be hard to corner the animals.
Thanks for the journey, Jan.