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The Clemson College Sheep Barn (Barnes Center) is a two-story barn built in 1915 on the Clemson University campus. It is the oldest surviving building associated with agriculture on this land-grant university. [3] It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1990. [4]
A barn is an agricultural building usually on farms and used for various purposes. In North America, a barn refers to structures that house livestock, including cattle and horses, as well as equipment and fodder, and often grain. [2] As a result, the term barn is often qualified e.g. tobacco barn, dairy barn, cow house, sheep barn, potato barn.
Sheep farming in Namibia (2017). According to the FAOSTAT database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the top five countries by number of head of sheep (average from 1993 to 2013) were: mainland China (146.5 million head), Australia (101.1 million), India (62.1 million), Iran (51.7 million), and the former Sudan (46.2 million). [2]
Across the street stand two barns: a c. 1820 sheep barn, and an 1809 apple packing barn. Both have rubblestone foundations and timber framing, with clapboard walls. At the time of the property's National Register operation, most of the farm's 117 acres (47 ha) were in agricultural use as an apple orchard.
The farm is now 8 acres (3.2 ha) in size, with a cluster of buildings set near the road. The complex includes a farmhouse, horse barn, sheep barn, and shed, as well as the foundations of former buildings. The house is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story Cape style house, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. Its main facade is five ...
The contributing buildings are the house and banked barn (both c. 1830), a sheep barn (c. 1870), a hay shed and spring house (both c. 1880), and a privy (c. 1920). The house is a five-bay, center passage farmhouse with an attached rear kitchen; it was designed in a T-shaped floor plan.
The school added a sheep barn to the southeast of the structure in 1913–1915. [2] The Farwell house burned down to its foundations in 1976, and today remain as an archaeological site . Archaeologists at the University of Connecticut have excavated this site through the Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST) program and have found various artifacts ...
It consists of the 1860 farmhouse, privy, garage, smokehouse, milk house, horse barn/carriage house, sheep barn, and four smaller barns. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1] Marion Carll was a schoolteacher who moved onto the property in 1885.