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Round

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 14:47:13 +0000

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The Saturday Self-Challenge: round

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Round Stone Barn (Explored)

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:09:43 +0000

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The Round Stone Barn at Hancock Shaker Village in Massachusetts was constructed in 1826.

"The Round Stone Barn is the only circular barn ever built by the Shakers. Widely recognized as an architectural icon and agricultural wonder, this unique dairy barn originally stabled 52 milk cows. It’s been attracting visitors – most notably Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, who staged a footrace in the structure – since its construction.

The Round Stone Barn offers ground-level access on all three levels. Wagons entered on the upper level to deposit hay into the central haymow on the main floor below. The Brethren would drive the empty wagons around the circular barn floor and exit the same door they came in, eliminating the potentially dangerous activity of backing wagons out of a barn. The cows stabled on the main floor faced inward toward the haymow for ease of feeding. Manure shoveled through trapdoors to the cellar was stored until needed as fertilizer in the gardens. The Shakers maintained a working dairy farm at Hancock into the 1950s."

hancockshakervillage.org/shakers/museum/historic-architecture/1826-stone-barn

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Inside the Round Stone Barn

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:06:52 +0000

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Wagon wheel

nobody@ipernity.com (Esther) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:30:31 +0000

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Brightly decorated ox carts with painted wheels used to haul coffee in Costa Rica. Now those carts are used only in ceremonies and the wheels have become wall hangings.

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