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Bank Barn and Cutting Lumber Photographs

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Title	Bank Barn and Cutting Lumber Photographs
Subject	Agriculture Education Agricultural facilities Barns Lumber
Place	Wooster (Ohio) Wayne County (Ohio)
Description	The bank barn was the second building constructed on the campus of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster. Built into the side of a hill, bank barns had two levels, both of which could be entered from the ground. Animals were generally kept on the lower level, while the upper one served as a threshing floor and storage area. This barn, built by craftsman John Starn of Smithville, Ohio in 1893, was 230 feet long, 48 feet wide, and 60 feet high. The roof above the upper-level entrance (shown in the photograph) displayed "OAES 1894" while the other bore the words "Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station." The bank barn was used for conducting experiments until 1964, when it was razed to make room for Gerlaugh Hall. The photograph of the barn, dated from around 1897, measures 7" x 2" (12.7 x 5 cm). Lumber to build the barn came from the area that is now Secrest Arboretum. A second photograph shows workers who were involved with cutting trees and measures 5" x 4" (12.7 x 10.2 cm). These images are part of an extensive collection of photographs, tools, and artifacts dealing with the history of the OARDC. In 1882, the Ohio State University established an experiment station to bolster its agriculture program, which critics charged was being shortchanged by a shift towards liberal arts education. Charles Thorne, who had led the campaign for a separate station, became its first director. The Hatch Act of 1887, a federal act that provided funding for experiment stations, was a response to the land-grant universities' abandonment of their agricultural and mechanical roots. In 1892, the experiment station moved from Columbus to Wooster in Wayne County. Researchers there worked with farmers around the state improve crop yields, animal nutrition, animal husbandry, and pest control. In 1965 the name was changed to the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center. The OARDC and Ohio State University officially merged in 1981.
Creator	Starn, John
Date of Original	1893; 1897 circa
Collection	Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Photograph Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om113_668258_018
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om113_668258_018.tif
Image Height	613
Image Width	2054
File Size	116.384 KB

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