I love old barns and houses. They all have beauty in their usefulness whether still in service today or only in the memories they hold.
This barn in Williamson County, Tennessee is probably still being used for cattle or hay storage. The style and pastoral setting can be seen across many areas of Tennessee and speak of "home" to me. This is the familiar countryside of Middle Tennessee that I have grown to love.
This old barn has managed to remain standing in spite of the years. While it could be destroyed by a summer storm or dismantled for its aged wood to be used in some new construction, I have captured it with my camera to remain at least in a photo.
The abandonment of this farm is probably due to the continuing growth and urban spread that created the need for a new interstate highway that may have split what was once probably a rural family's farm.
Oh how I wish I knew the history and story of the lives once shared in this old dilapidated house. How many different families lived here through the years? Were they happy years? Sad years?
Going on down another road, was this barn once the home of livestock on a larger farm? It seems to still be in use but probably not to the extent it once was.
Across the road from the barn is this terribly decaying "tenant house." I remember driving by when it still had residents. It was only a few weeks ago that the porch collapsed no longer able to bear the weight of the years of neglect.
Another wonderful old house that will all too soon be gone. Maybe someday someone will come along and restore it to its once beautiful style before it too is gone, only to be remembered in pictures. I'm just glad I had that chance to "save" it in my pictures.
It seems the more I think about these old places and the more aware I become of them, I start finding them everywhere I go. This old barn, although patched and sagging, is still being used on a working farm.
Here are more examples of lives moved on and the heritage and abandoned structures left behind.
And lastly, what age and neglect doesn't destroy, the perils of nature finish the job.
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