Midway Stock Farm Barn was a historic building located north of

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, United States. The barn was built by William A. Barker around 1880. It gained historical significance when his son Webb installed equipment made by the Louden Machinery Company of

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. with By doing so he converted the facility from one that raised livestock to a dairy operation. Around 1918 Barker built an addition onto the south side of the barn and installed a litter carrier with tracks and switches on the ground floor, a hay carrier with a steel track and grapple hook hay fork also on the main floor, and a metal aerator on the roof. It was one of a few local operations that still had the Louden equipment in place. The barn was listed on the

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in 1999. On July 19, 2018, it was destroyed by a tornado, and the following year it was removed from the National Register.

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