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ROUND BARN

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c. 1929. Stein Rd. at Leota Rd.

The Chatham community at the lake’s northwest end boasts an agricultural building unique in the state: a round barn that stored cottonseed for local farmers. A circular, open cupola for ventilation tops the board-and-batten structure. Shuttered openings indicate numbered, partitioned bins inside that kept batches of seed separated until the next growing season. Trucks drove through the porte-cochere where pipes (removed) sucked the seed into the correct bin. Nearby, Roy’s Store (c. 1940) stands at the terminus of the old concrete highway, MS 1 (1917), which linked Lake Washington, then evolving as a recreation destination, to Greenville.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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ERWIN HOUSE
LINDEN

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "ROUND BARN", [Glen Allan, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 101-102.

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