Barns, vanishing relics of by-gone days?
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Although this barn is white like many other barns
throughout southeast Pennsylvania, it can easily be seen, this
barn is a 'horse of a different color'. Imagination and in
dividual style must have been the trademark of this barn’s
creator. The unique building is found on another Milton
Hershey School farm near Sand Beach.
Patients of the Milton Hershey Medical Center can catch a
glimpse of this specimen of barns by gazing northwest. The
land on which the medical facility was constructed was
formerly some of the best farmland on Hershey’s 10,000
acres. Reminders of its former land use include this small hip
roof barn which sheep and young cattle still call home.
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Double your pleasure could be the name of the needed space for dairy cattle, feed, and
this style of barn found on a Milton Hershey equipment. Today’s double digit inflation
farm located north of Sand Beach along Route would make building this barn an ‘impossible
39. It goes a long, loooong way in providing dream'.
Dutch barns books have been written metal and pole buildings, these barns
about them, pictures have been painted of represent an era of agriculture when wages
them they serve as a symbol of southeast were a dollar a week and bread cost pennies a
Pennsylvania’s heritage. In contrast to today’s loaf.
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