Category Archives: barns and farms

I saw this Mail Pouch barn and covered bridge in a park in Lanesville, Indiana. The town sits along the Ohio River Scenic Byway. I am not sure if it is an historic barn but it looks as if it has been painted somewhat recently. If it old or not, I still admire it and had to stop and get a pic of the sun shining on a beautiful scene in the southern part of the Hoosier State.

Maybe it’s just me, but I like seeing advertising painted on the side of a barn better than a billboard covered in LED lighting flashing a “Big Sale” on mattresses  or some other modern day product.  For what it’s worth, I have seen a Mail Pouch barn on my travels through Ohio, Indiana and most recently in Illinois, along with my home state of Michigan. I wonder if I will find one in every state.

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I have seen a lot of barns in my travels including, historic barns, dairy barns and round barns but I was surprised to see a sock barn in southern Indiana.  I saw it on State Road 46 on my way to the T.C. Steele Historic Site near Nashville, Indiana. It looked rather odd with socks attached to the side of it so I had to stop and get a pic.

Here it is a year later since my Trip to Indiana and I got to wondering about the strange barn. I searched the internet figuring I would not find anything. Instead, I found out that the barn is along the Tecumseh Trail and the owners of the barn had collected rocks at a nearby creek. They placed them by the barn and as a joke posted a sign that read “Take a Rock, Leave a Sock.” Hikers along the trail read the sign an did what it said and that is how the barn ended up as The Sock Barn.

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