Excerpt from Reminiscences of Thomas T. Newby

The farm on which this barn was built by Andrew Tharp was bought by my father, Henry Newby, in 1833. It was built proba bly about 1829, as I have seen that date on a log inside in red keal.

It is forty feet long. And twenty feet wide, outside measurement, and about thirty feet high to the ridge pole. A partition was built in the middle to the top. And 20-foot logs were dove-tailed spliced on this wall to make the long sides. However the middle partition is the stable and passway wall up about eight feet, then the joists over the stable and passway extend two and one-half feet over the treading floor to the middle of the building. Which is then built to the top like the ends. This gives more space for the treading floor or general purpose room. The logs were selected from the best, and straightest, easy-working timber. Such as Poplar, Blue Ash, Red Elm and a few Sugar trees. Etc.. Twelve inches to eighteen inches in diameter, and twenty feet long. Two sides of them were lined and hewn to make a perpendicular wall seven inches thick. Experts cut the saddles and notches to fit at the corners, and made the dove-tailed Splices as the heavy timbers were put up; and thus the barn was built from the foundation to the top. A partition of logs across one end inside made a corn crib four and one-half feet wide, nearly eighteen feet long, eight or nine feet high - this was cut out long since. At the other end is a horse stable about 12x10 feet also built of logs inside, leaving a narrow pass and feed way by the stable. To the treading floor and general purpose space. This pass way had a small outside door with wooden hinges. A larger door on one side opened to the treading floor. Split timber for joists over the stable etc., with rails laid across them made the mow room.

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