Corn Crib

Corn Crib. . , The corn crib was built by Landon Carter Haynes in the early 1850s. The November 1857 Harper's New Monthly Magazine drawing shows the Haynes corn crib. Corn was a major cash crop for the area during the mid-1800s. The 1850 Federal Agricultural Census documents Haynes producing 1,200 bushels of Indian corn which would account for Haynes building such a large corn crib., Haynes constructed the corn crib with a half dovetail notching at the poplar log ends and a double pen storage with a breezeway. During the 1900s, the Simerly brothers used the corn crib as storage. In 1967, the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tipton-Haynes Historical Association, Inc. cleared the Simerly debris and dismantled the logs to rebuild and restore the corn crib to the time of the Haynes family. The University of Tennessee Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science collected several core samples from multiple logs in 2008. The tree-ring dating or dendrochronology results dated the logs to 1850 or 1851., [Captions:] , This mod-1960s photograph shows the corn crib before restoration efforts and full of debris collected by the Simerly brothers., A dendrochronology core sample is being taken from one of the breezeway logs., This 1967 photograph shows the newly restored corn crib.