Rankin Barn (other)
Rankin Barn may refer to: *Rebecca Rankin Round Barn, Poling, Indiana, on the National Register of Historic Places *Rankin Octagonal Barn, Silverton, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places See also *Rankin House (other) Rankin House or Rankin Barn may refer to: in the United States (by state then city) * Green-Rankin-Bembridge House, Long Beach, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Los Angeles County * Rankin House (Columbus, Ge ...

Rebecca Rankin Round Barn
The Rebecca Rankin Round Barn is a historic round barn in the far eastern part of the U.S. state of Indiana. Located along State Road 18 in far northern Jay County, the barn is one of many built throughout the state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its distinctive manner of construction has resulted in its designation as a historic site. Round barns in Indiana Due to the invention of circular silos with elevators by 1882, round barns began to become practical in the late nineteenth century.McMahan, Jerry. '. National Park Service, 1991-10-18. Accessed 2011-01-05. Trade magazines soon began to make this technology more widely known, and farmers began to embrace this technology by building their barns around their silos. Moreover, farmers found that circular barns were more efficient, because they had no need to walk from end to end of the building multiple times when feeding their animals. As farmers and professors at land-grant universities in ...
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Rankin Octagonal Barn
Rankin Octagonal Barn is a historic octagonal barn located near Silverton, Jackson County, West Virginia. It was built about 1890, and is an eight-sided frame structure covered with vertical wide board siding. Each side of the octagon measures 24 feet in length. It features a central cupola to provide light and ventilation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1985. References Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Octagon barns in the United States Buildings and structures completed in 1895 Buildings and structures in Jackson County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, West Virginia {{JacksonCountyWV-NRHP-stub ...
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