Geauga County – September 6, 2010

The Geauga County Bicentennial Barn is in the middle of rolling, fertile northeast Ohio farmland.

We had taken in the Great Geauga County Fair and thought we’d take a detour home to see this Bicentennial Barn.

The barn is on the west side of the road (Madison Road) and faces east, so an afternoon photo shoot was not ideal (hint: go in the morning).

There’s a fairly wide gravel driveway leading up to the barn and it is there that I decided to park.

These barns are huge and are required to be visible from roads and such. But they’re not really public property. But you can’t expect to have something this interesting on your land without some sight-seers, either!

As I was walking up, a pickup truck arrived at the farmhouse and so I waved. Two small boys tumbled out and tore over to see me. I asked if it was OK to take pictures of their barn and they were quite happy about that. I recognized their shirts as some 4-H shirts that we’d been seeing at the fair and I asked if they’d been there. Mom then suggested that they ask if I was interested in taking a picture of their frog (they’d been frog-racing at the fair).

I’m not sure what was up next because when looked up, they were all gone.

There are 88 counties in Ohio, so we’ve got a ways to go.

Where to view and visit: 13034 Madison Road, south of US 322 and north of Middlefield. There is a private drive leading from Madison Road to the Barn, but be careful to not block the owners’ traffic into and out of their property (41.51564, -81.05171).

Taken September 6, 2010