Tag Archive: farm

Corn Crib – Locust Grove Estate – Louisville – Kentucky

Corn Crib - Locust Grove Estate - Louisville - Kentucky

A corn crib at the historic Locust Grove estate outside of Louisville, Kentucky.

Locust Grove was an 18th century farm founded by William Croghan and his wife Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy Clark was the sister of George Rogers Clark a military officer and explorer who played an important part in the early history of Kentucky and Louisville. She is also the sister of William Clark, the famous explorer from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to America’s Pacific Northwest. The farm is notable as the place George Rogers Clark spent his final years, and for being adjacent to the property where Zachery Taylor, America’s 12th president grew up

Old Hay Barn – Cache Valley – Utah

Old Hay Barn - Cache Valley - Utah

An old hay barn during a a thunderstorm in Utah’s Cache Valley. A large rural mountain valley in northern Utah, the Cache Valley is one of Utah’s top agricultural areas, providing land for cattle, milk and cheese production, and the growing of wheat, barley and hay.  The valley is located between to the Wellsville Mountains to the west and the Bear River Mountains to the east. Both ranges are part of the larger Wasatch Mountain Range that dominates northern Utah.

The Cache Valley gets its name, from the fact that early fur trappers created caches in the valley to protect and hide their goods from thieves.

Old Barn in Rural Kentucky – Warsaw (Gallatin County)

Old Barn in Rural Kentucky - Warsaw (Gallatin County)

An old abandoned barn located in a rural part of Gallatin County, in northeastern Kentucky, at the recently created Hartig Park & Wildlife Reserve. The nearest large town is Warsaw, and the park sits between the major cities of Louisville, and Cincinnati. Hartig offers numerous nature trails, historical buildings like the barn, camping, and a great vista of the Ohio River looking north into  Indiana.