Save Our Barns

Wayne County, PA
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Mission Statement


The mission of the Save Our Barns Project is to raise the level of  awareness of our heritage by documenting, researching, and preserving the stories and images of Wayne County barns before they are gone.

 

Photo by Michel Legrand

 

This project is supported by a grant from the PA Humanities Council, a Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is funded principally by the PA Council on the Arts, a state agency supported by the Commonwealth of PA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is managed by the Wayne Library Authority.  

  • The barn is an icon of rural life, a proud symbol of home-based industry and economy.
  • Barns are part of the heritage and local history of Pennsylvania and Wayne County; they are also part of our present day “Agri-culture,” a way of life that is in transition.  

  • Over the past 20 years, Wayne County has gone from 700 working farms to 70, with the focal point of rural community life disappearing.  

  • Old barns are often abandoned or replaced; sometimes they take on new life, reinvented for new purposes; sometimes they are restored and preserved, standing as a living lesson in architecture, history, and farm life.

     

            

     Photo by Michel Legrand

 

  Photo by Michel Legrand

 

  • Factors of land use, new economies, technology, and population shifts impact local life and the preservation of land and local history. Wayne Countians old and new must find ways to reinvent themselves through an awareness of the county’s own unique time and place