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- Hey, it's 1790.
George Washington is president
and we want to build a barn.
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This is the Huff Log barn.
All right.
Now it was, as I said earlier,
Yost Greenwood.
Well, he was a Pennsylvania Dutch fella, ie a German,
was the original owner of the land.
Had the barn built, this is 1790 ish.
Then his family owned this barn till after the Civil War,
1860s, 1870s, the Huff family bought the barn.
So in 200 plus years,
that property and this barn was owned by two families,
which I think is a little bit on the remarkable side.
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What did the Greenwood family raise on their farm?
Well, the main purpose of that farm
was to feed, clothe, and shelter the farm family.
Much more worried about starving to death than making money.
It was largely a subsistence farm.
These are,
as we look at these logs up here in the top of the barn,
they are the original logs.
Now the logs are just stacked.
If you look at the joints,
you can see that there's no nails, there's no glue.
There's nothing holding them in place but those notches,
and of course the weight of the logs.
Tornado or hurricane comes through here,
the roof's gone, the siding's gone,
the logs will still be here, they're not gonna move.
A furniture maker from Washington DC
came to Mr. Huff and he said,
"I want those logs.
"I'll give you,"
I've heard $30,000 and $40,000,
"For that barn to get those logs to make furniture from."
Luckily for us, Mr. Huff said,
"No, I'm donating it to the Farm Museum."
And so here it sits.
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