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Home»Local News»Stabilization of Historic Vaughters’ Barn begins

Stabilization of Historic Vaughters’ Barn begins

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By On Common Ground News on November 27, 2018 Local News, DeKalb
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Vaughters’ Barn, a former dairy farm that is part of Panola Mountain State Park and the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area (AMNHA), is currently undergoing renovations to stabilize the historic building. The project began at the end of October.

Water damage, structural factors, and general wear and tear have led to some structural instability. Upon completion of the project, the barn will offer increased opportunities for education about county history.

DeKalb County was at one point the biggest dairy producer in the state of Georgia, and S. B. Vaughters was one of the many dairy farmers in the area. As urban sprawl inched out of Atlanta over the course of the 20th century, Mr. Vaughters sought a different future for his land. “Nearly all the rest of DeKalb County is covered up with homes and businesses. You can drive from Lithonia to Dunwoody and not find a piece of open land. I didn’t want that here,” he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution in 2002. He sold his farm of 144 acres, including the barn and family home, to the State Department of Natural Resource shortly after that interview.  Mr. Vaughters passed in 2004. Today, Vaughters’ Farm is managed by Panola Mountain State Park and, as the area’s last remaining dairy landscape, offers visitors a glimpse of DeKalb’s rural past.

Over the course of his career as a farmer, Vaughters used the barn for cows – first Jersey cows, producing dairy, and later for Angus cattle – and horses. The animals inhabited the first floor of the building, while the spacious second story was used for storage. Like many of the agricultural buildings found throughout the AMNHA, Vaughters’ Barn was built as a functional structure: as S. B. Vaughters’ needs changed, so did the barn itself. Without that continuous input, utilitarian farm buildings such as this one fall into disrepair. In the case of the barn, the walls and roof have begun to bow outwards and water damage has impacted the interior.

Dedicated to preserving the historic structures throughout the National Heritage Area, the Arabia Alliance has been advocating for building restoration for the past several years. Restoration is no easy process: the project will cost “around $200,000, with half of the funds coming from the state and half of the funds coming from the Alliance,” said Mera Cardenas, Arabia Alliance Executive Director.

The project should be complete by the end of the year and the barn will be available for guided visitation. Minor changes to the first-floor ceiling will allow visitors to see inside the hay loft and better appreciate Vaughters’ decades of successful farming. The Arabia Alliance plans on leading guided tours through this historic building.

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