Barn

Barn. . , The double crib barn is believed to have been built sometime in the early 1850s by Landon Carter Haynes. A November 1857 Harper's New Monthly Magazine drawing of the site shows Haynes having a barn in this location. Unfortunately, there is no remaining documentation of how the Haynes family used the barn agriculturally or industrially. The 1857 Harper's drawing does show sheep on the Haynes property that may have been housed in the barn., During the 1900s, the Simerly brothers and their neighbor Clinton Garland modernized the barn in order to store hay. In 1965 and 1966, the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tipton-Haynes Historical Association, Inc. restored the barn to its original look., The barn was completely dismantled and rebuilt. Most of the original logs of the Haynes barn were so deteriorated that they were replaced, but the original trough was preserved and can be viewed within the lower stall. The common mid-nineteenth century use of v-notch construction was used to restore the barn logs., [Captions:] , This August 1966 photograph shows members of the J.E. Green Company rebuilding the barn while the original trough can be seen behind them., This photograph shows the Simely and Garland addition to the Haynes barn prior to restoration efforts., This 1966 photograph shows the Haynes barn shortly after restoration work was completed.