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Haylofts were used to hide escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad. A hayloft is a space above a barn, stable or cow-shed, traditionally used for storage of hay or other fodder for the animals below. Haylofts were used mainly before the widespread use of very large hay bales, which allow simpler handling of bulk hay.
Early settlers in the American west initially stored hay for their livestock under shelter in barns and haylofts. However, unlike the east, where hay is fed as a supplemental form of forage, the northern plains had lengthy and severe winter weather and therefore large quantities of hay were needed to provide adequate forage for animals.
"Hayloft", later re-released as "Hayloft I", is a 2008 song by Canadian indie rock band Mother Mother. It is the eighth song from their second studio album, O My Heart.The song tells the story of two young lovers unsuccessfully attempting to hide from the armed father of one of the pair.
Catsheads originally existed to protect the ropes and pulleys associated with lifting equipment (such as the block and tackle rigs used to shift multi-ton milling equipment and the simple wheel pulleys used to lift fodder into haylofts) from ice and the corrosion caused by rain. In driest climates, if they had an opening to the building which ...
Meeting places were titled Haylofts. Sometimes the meeting halls of the Redmen served as Haylofts. [2] Offices had titles like "Collector of Straws" and "Guard of the Barn Door", and candidates for initiation were styled "Tramps" and were overseen by a "Boss Driver". The side degree was founded in 1879, and had 10,000 members as late 1980.
In New England, the barn doors are always on the gable end. The cows were on the main level, hay in a mow on the main level and/or above in haylofts, possibly grain storage on the main level, sometimes a tack room or workshop, and the basement was used for manure management and other tasks. [7]
Dilapidated Dutch barn in upstate New York recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1937. The New World Dutch barn is the rarest of the American barn forms. [citation needed] The remaining American Dutch-style barns represent relics from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The current large barn, with a main structure measuring 90' x 40' and a 10,000 bale capacity in the haylofts, was built in 1887. "The Cedars" (1891) - residence of Henry Sargent Hunnewell (1854-1931), designed by Shaw & Hunnewell , and including a large landscape designed by Charles Eliot and organized around long directed 'view avenues' to ...