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Photograph Highlights of the Barns of Townshend

Townshend is fortunate to be home to many agricultural structures from bank barns to carriage sheds to sugar houses and small outbuildings.
This page features some of the most striking barns photograhed during the windshield survey. Click on each image for a larger version,
which will open in the same window. Photographs by Kaitlin O'Shea, September - October 2009.
1939 VT Route 30
Bank barn with cupola.		95 Oakwood Cemetery Road
Barn with entrances on gable end and eaves side.
192 Depot Road
Small barn or granary with a stone foundation.		1541 Peaked Mountain Road
Maple sugar house.
2980 Back Windham Rd
Three connected barns. Note the stone foundation and sliding
doors (middle). 		1785 VT Route 30
Yankee barn with cupola, shed roof addition,
and sliding barn door.
1895 Grafton Road
Connected barns with an English barn on the left. 		421 Deer Ridge Road
A bank barn (left) and a gable front barn (right).
69 East Hill Road
Abandoned sugar house.		1491 VT Route 30
Bank barn attached to house ell.
814 Windham Hill Road
A bank barn.		2098 Deer Valley Rd
A bank barn with cupola, weathervane, sliding barn doors,
and partial stone foundation.
Franklin, VTDerby, VTBrownington, VTHinesburg, VTHuntington, VTRichmond, VTNorwich, VTHartford, VTDorset, VTManchester, VTTownshend, VTGrafton, VT

This preliminary research about barns and farm buildings in thirteen Vermont towns is offered as a public service to assist local volunteers with their efforts to learn more about the agricultural heritage of these communities. It is hoped that additional information on the history and features of these barns will be submitted by volunteers through the Vermont Barn Census project. The historical research and preliminary field documentation was conducted during the fall 2009 semester by Kaitlin O'Shea, a graduate student enrolled in the Researching Historic Structures and Sites course at University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program with the assistance of local volunteers as part of the Vermont Barn Census, a statewide project of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, the University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program, Historic Windsor’s Preservation Education Institute, Save Vermont Barns, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, and the Preservation Trust of Vermont. Funding support provided in part by a Preserve America grant through the National Park Service to the State of Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.