Barns, OCTAGONAL BARN, HARRISON COUNTY, OHIO
This elegant octagonal barn was built in the early 1900s near the village of Moorefield in east-central Ohio’s Harrison County. As many as sixty round or polygonal barns were built in the Buckeye State, though only about half survive today. Another Harrison County polygonal barn, near Freeport, has sixteen sides. The nation’s highest concentration of round barns occurs along a fertile 200-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that divides Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, farmers built hundreds of round and polygonal barns here. Many survive today, though a few succumb each year to the ravages of time and benign neglect.
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