The Main Barn (01-08)

Historical narrative

There were several barns on Mitchellville's Enterprise Farm, including a dairy barn (pictured here), a tobacco barn, several stables (one portrayed in this collection), a farm garage, a maintenance garage, various shelters and sheds, equipment barns, a fertilizer barn, and a smoke house. The dairy barn is where the milking took place. The attached silo was used to store grain for the cattle. Steve and friends occasionally used their .22 caliber bolt-action rifles to shoot rats and other vermin raiding the grain stores.

Watercolor

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