Historic Galivants Ferry

Big Red Barn
c. 1928

This huge three-story Dutch Colonial design barn featured an elevator as well as a three-story incline drive up ramp to utilize the third floor. In the 1930's, it housed required farm animals, mainly mules, to pull the heavy farming equipment. The original lightning rod system along the roof ridge is still intact. In 1970, the state highway department moved the location of the U.S. Highway 501 rather than cut 28 feet off the barn.