TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A barn filled with hay was lost in a grass fire that had also threatened nearby homes north of Topeka. The Soldier Township Fire Department says that around 12:45 p.m. on Monday, ...
LAWLER, Iowa — The Blazek Barn was built around 1900, and it's been going through changes ever since, said Bob Blazek, who has overseen restoration of the structure. Bob Blazek is restoring the barn ...
Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...
HAMILTON, Ill. (AP) — A group of preservationists is trying to save a 130-year-old Hancock County barn. Western Illinois Threshers has begun a fundraising campaign to rebuild the loose hay barn built ...
Western Illinois Threshers has begun a fundraising campaign to rebuild the loose hay barn built by Alexander Bolton in 1884. Its mortise and tenon joints hold up beams without nails. The Quincy Herald ...