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That is America for you. What a great historical story...come to America, work hard, and do well, and then pass on a wonderful legacy. This family totally represents the American Dream. Good for them.
I have driven by this beautiful barn, first with my Grandparents, then with my parents, then with my Husband and children, and now with my Grandchildren! Hopefully it will continue to be an amazing site for another 50 years! 🕺
Love these videos Sir! Having grown up on a farm in Wisconsin, I can attest to the hidden beauty in barns and silos. This example is stunning, and I appreciate all your hard work researching the history and family behind it. I never knew about A.C.O. silos either. Now I'm glued to your channel! Keep them coming!
Great narrative....the Schumacher family were blessed and left behind them a legacy with that barn and silos. Preservation of wealth is key and the barn did just that.
Yes, that's the best barn I've ever seen. I was raised in northern Illinois. There were a couple of barns we had access to. Nothing nearly as big as the one in your story. I can't forget how much fun we had jumping from the loft into the hay. Great Midwest memories.
As a 5th generation farm family I found this video very interesting. The barn is beautiful, and built in a style not often seen here in Pennsylvania. Thank you for sharing this video!
As a child my family often traveled from Wisconsin to Minnesota, westward across the Mississippi on I-90. I always roused from reading or napping once we approached the rapidly changing and beautiful landscapes from Coon Valley on…undulating hillsides, intriguing estuaries of the Mississippi, across the bridge to LaCrescent with its steep limestone cliffs, past an idyllic little farm impossibly nestled into a deep valley, and onward into the flat plains where broad-hatted men and boys plied their horse-drawn implements. From there I tended to lay back again and let my father cruise on past Rochester, Austin, and, if we didn’t turn north at Albert Lea to visit one set of grandparents, it was on to Blue Earth, Fairmont, and a last sprint north to little Trimont and home. So I had always wondered why so many barns among my family in Minnesota tended to have these beautiful brick foundations-perhaps 8-10 feet high-with white painted wood above. My guess is that what began as the economy and utility of lime and whitewash became a tradition over time. A grandfather that moved from Trimont to a farm near Fairibault had one of those cathedral-like brick and white barns on his dairy farms. And I might add that he also had a small outbuilding known as the “Bean Shed”. My young assumption was it was meant for soybean storage until I realized how poorly suited for such use it would have been. My father laughed when I asked about it. He told me that a Mexican family drove up every year to help with the sugar beet harvest. The shed was so named since its annual visitors cooked very little for themselves to eat other than tortillas and beans and a weekly chicken.
Totally agree! On business in 2018ish, I had the chance to see a barn very similar to this at the Marlboro State psychiatric state hospital in New Jersey,which was built in the 30’s along with it’s sister institution Greyson’s in North Jersey. These institutions had working farms which supplied most of the food to the hospitals. It was a magnificent sight to see but also saddened because of neglect because of the closure of both institutions. The architectural design and craftsmanship of the arched rafters were so impressive that it left me in wonderment of how it was laid out and erected. Each rafter had so many segments of wood which were pained together to create the arch roof. Seeing this makes me wonder if the used same plans. Thanks for the upload of the video.
Thank you so much for going into the history of this magnificent barn & Silos. I'm and old farm boy from Southwest Michigan. My Dad grew up milking cows and he dispised milk cows, but we raised cattle and hogs. I've been in many old barns stacking baled hay, unfortunately there aren't many remaining today. I witnessed and old barn get hit by lightning around 1966 and of course it burned to the ground, before fire department could arrive. There were some Silos like this North East of Kalamazoo, Michigan years ago.
Thank you for all the research on an obscure item. Compared to other barns this would be massive. Hard work built the farmstead so this is a fitting reminder to them family and the evolution of agriculture
What is very interesting is that they constructed the Barn and the Silos in the depths of the Great Depression - apparently they were not in debt, and were able to weather the economic storm with few problems.
The only people who were really affected by the Great Depression were city folk who made all their money off the stock exchange. If most of the money wasn't in stock but in land and physical assets- such as a farm, then the depression would have much less of an impact on their fortunes.
@@geigertec5921 I am sorry, but you are COMPLETELY WRONG. In the United States, the Depression BEGAN in the Farm regions, in the years 1927 and 1928, as sudden declines in overseas markets and market saturation led to massive decreases in commodity prices. As farm prices dropped, farmers were unable to repay their Mortgages and 'Seed Loans' . The Banks began to foreclose on farms, and then found that they were unable to sell the foreclosed assets, leading to Bank Failures and Bank Runs. It was this sudden loss of purchasing power by rural farmers which began to impact the profits of the major industrial corporations in the USA, resulting in the Stock Market Crashes of 1929 and 1932. They were the RESULT of the Depression, NOT the cause of it ! During 1933, at the depths of the Great Depression, more than 200,000 farms underwent foreclosure. ( This was just ONE YEAR ! ) Foreclosure rates were higher in the Great Plains States and some Southern States than elsewhere. As farms became less valuable, land prices fell, too, and farms were often worth less than their owners owed to the bank. Farmers across the country lost their farms as banks foreclosed on mortgages. The years of the Great Depression were also the years of the Great Midwestern Drought, which gave rise to the Dust Bowl. When the dryness, heat, and grasshoppers destroyed the crops, farmers were left with no money to buy groceries or make farm payments. Some people lost hope and moved away. ( This is the origin of the stories of the 'Okies ' , displaced Oklahoma Wheat Farmers who had lost their lands, and ended up moving the California, Oregon, and Washington to seek work. ) The vast projects of the Roosevelt Administration were really efforts to get money to rural farmers who were going, or had gone, bankrupt. TVA, Hoover Dam, Columbia River Project, the list is almost endless, were projects designed to employ unemployed rural men and provide their families with some form of sustenance.
@@paulrward when you look at the monetary policy in those days it makes better sense of the the depression. Early 1929 the fed began raising interest rates. Like you said, decline in oversea markets killed trade. The market bubble popped and in the spring of 1930 the market was halfway back to its all time high. But as soon as the smoot and hawley tariff began to make its way through congress it fell again. The tariffs is what killed rural America and killed investor confidence. The nail in the coffin was two years later when the income tax was practically doubled. Roosevelt came in with a promise of smaller government and less spending but proceeded to do the opposite raising debt by 83% and increased spending by 75%. After two terms of fdr unemployment was still at the same percentage it was when he entered office.
@@fsca72 That's right - and if it hadn't been for WW2, we would STILL be in Roosevelt's Depression ! However, The Smoot-Hawley Tarriffs were a response to British Tarriffs on U.S. Goods being sold in the British Empire - including agricultural products. During WW1, Britain had made a 'Gentleman's Agreement' with Woodrow Wilson that, if the U.S. assisted Britain with Loans, War Materiel on credit, and use of U.S. Ports and the Panama Canal to ship Briitsh Cargoes, that, after WW1 was over, the U.S. would get ' Special Privileges' to trade in the British Empire. During the 1920s, the U.S. was granted these privileges, but as the Depression began in Britain in the mid 1920s, those privileges were quietly revoked, and U.S. corporations and U.S. shipping firms lost their ability to trade in British Empire ports. The result was U.S. corporations lost markets they had spent a decade developing, and, in response, the U.S. put tarriffs on British goods being shipped into and through the U.S. This put a crimp on British trade with Canada, and restrictions on British tonnage going through Panama inhibited their trade with China and Australia/New Zealand. It was a Trade War - but , despite the claims of Marxist College Historians, the blame did NOT rest on the United States, but rather on Great Britain - who ended up suffering far worse than did the United States, as the U.S. could feed itself, while Britain, and parts of the Empire, relied on U.S. Agricultural products for their very survival. My Grandfather was in the Banking Industry in the 1920s- he explained this all very carefully to me, as well as how he protected his wealth and assets during the Depression, and when it, and WW2 was over, did VERY well financially.
@@paulrward I agree with what your saying. What you explain adds to the point I was making, that a roller coaster ride of monetary policy created a roller coaster economy. I can’t totally agree about the war ending it though. Realistically it ended after the war. When Truman restored investor confidence.
Have taken a few pictures of the barn from the road.. It's sad to see some of these old farms disappear.. They had some amazing things that made each one unique.. Thanks for the story.. Did not know who owned it.. My family came to MN in 1884 and lived in Morgan MN around Gilfillan .
Although it would be a drive, from MN, to Indiana, or rather to say, Indiana has a few amazing barns, that I personally do not know much about, other then they are old, built by the Amish, and are exceptionally well built. The first time I seen one, I though it was fairly new, and asked the owner "How much a barn like this costs?" and her replay was "About $875"....... Umm What? Did I miss something here, just one of those 14" x 16" x 20' long hard oak beams is like $5K and there is like 50 to 60 of them...LOL... Please help me understand what I am missing.. That is when she said it is like 90 years old to 120 years old... I was blown away, as the structure is new looking. I asked if it had been refurbished or something, and no, it hasn't. I finally got up to speed at her angle she was coming from, and of course, the question of primary importance, "What would a barn like this cost today to have made? This is what is amazing, and disturbing at the same time. She mentioned it is a two part (at least) answer. No 1. Not going to happen, at least in the state of Indiana. Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and a few other surrounding states, due to the type of native trees needed for such a structure, as per the age of the trees. The slow growing hard wood trees needed, have very minimal knots, due to how slowly they were naturally allowed to grow, were as today, certain species of trees are engineered to grow exceptionally fast, like a few pine species which those serve their function in basic construction No 2. For insurance value, that (approx) 80' wide x 150' long barn, is estimated to cost about $2 to $3 million dollars if one was to be built, That is a starting price point, as buying old naturally grown hardwoods, that are that tall, low knots, let alone, they would have to come from other states farther away then the location of Indiana. I suppose, the cost would be less, if the barn was being built in the state / area where the trees are at? I do not know all the fancy names of each part of a barn, but, the "slats" is what I will call them, is attached at a 45 degree angle, or rather, to say, not parallel to the floor, when looking at the walls. It creates a herringbone aspect on the inside, and just amazing looking. Every stud, (which is HUGE) the direction of the slats change or alternate the 45 degree lay, or zig zag effect. The barns are super strong, due to the balance of WxHxL ratio, which I believe she called Hibonacci ratio or sequence of Fibinoccie ratio or sequence, which I don't know much about, other then it creates a golden ratio of strength, as it incorporates the arch stability from the point peak to the floor base. The entire structure, from what I could tell, is assembled with tongue and grove and wooden dowel pins and wedges, as every single locking joint, is exactly matching one another, like art work. I am also amazed at the wonder of how they erected such a structure. Just one of the studs as large and long as they are, has got to weigh at least 4000 lbs and there is like at least 50 of them. My imagination runs wild thinking about a bunches of horse daisy chained together, to pull one around, let alone, cantilever up to its resting position that creates the curved side A-frame structure. I have no clue how they did it, or how long it took and how many men/likely family's it took to build such a structure and how long?.... Knowing the Amish, I wouldn't be surprised if it was only like 4 men, and 2 days...LOL... They are some hard core working Kats, that is for sure. I hope this isn't out of line, to write a novel of Indiana barns. but, if so, please feel free to delete my comment, I will fully understand, and not be offended. I enjoy the channel, either way.
What a well presented look into the past of farming. Hope the barn is going to be preserved and even a coat of paint to stand tall for another 90 years.👍
I live in Indiana I have a barn that looks a lot like this barn we bought it from the family that built it and said they were visiting family in Wisconsin and came upon a barn they liked and asked about it found out info and had one built. It was built in 1954 instead of brick it has poured concrete walls it’s dimensions are 40x90 with a 30x30 bump out front granary. When I seen the video it caught my eye seeing how similar the barns are. Great video
I speak German as my mother tongue. It's always amazing how Americans pronounce German words and names. Thanxs for these very interesting videos and Greetings from Austria
Minnesota is led by a bunch of Marxists Leftist. We are reaping what we have sown Our worthless Governor said. Don't worry about out state MN there is nothing out there but Rocks and Cows. Gotta love those Democrats!!!
Too bad people are not saving this history? My uncles, grandfathers (both), great grandfather, and great great grandfather were farmers. All of their farms are either gone or the barns are falling apart---more rubble than barn. Buildings like these show so much history of the midwest.
I like your videos so much I’m from California and I spent three months in Minnesota the Pipestone and Lake Benton area in 1999 and I love history so I stayed at the Calumet inn for three months I love that place and I love that town and that whole area being from California I just love the Minnesota culture and history thanks for your video any reply or feedback on the Calumet inn
Although the barn appears to be in fair shape the wood work needs upkeep. Let's hope the interior woodwork is in restoration shape. My personal opinion is the barn is one of a kind. It is quite possible the only one of its kind left standing in fair condition. Frankly it's should be preserved under the preservation act. It should also be restored. Their are likely federal monies for this. It is a national treasure. Thank you James Chryst
There is two round barns that are located in Carver County . The first round barn is located 5 south of cologne, mn heading towards bell plain, mn. The other round barn is 5 miles west of cologne, mn. Both of these barns are still standing and still used everyday
Just quick point, Mr Schumacher would have been a Shoe maker not a cobbler,which is a shoe repair man. Some of my ancestors were shoemakers ,known as Cordwainers. They made fine shoes from top quality leather.
Greats and love from Hamburg in Germany where the Hamburgers came from. I am a facility manager with "a love for the US-history" and culture. 20% of US Citizen have german roots. Germans love to build for hundret and more years. In Hamburg we have homes that are 400 years young. Germany pay more for the quality of a building and americans love to build big fast easy and with no real foundament. They build 3 times bigger a house then the German. Germans belive in an investment in building high quality. Long therm. Americans build for -30 years or some more. Stones concrete wood clay- natural products are good. Americans love fake insolation like mineral wool- styropoor. Minesota has a lot tornados and strong winds. Germans know much about strong winds and storms thats why they check out the wind direction and build the building with an optimal form. My grandfather was the "General Director der Deutschen Keramikwerke" he was the boss or all bosses of ceramik- that time in Polend and when "the communist" came he run from them to the free zone. After the war- he devoloped the brick "Gailsche Klinkerwerke" a jellow brick that was hard like no other brick in west germany. Hisi first big coustomer became the "Grindelhochhäuser" because the brick was so strong they could build more then 10 floors! The Schumachers Barn is a perfekt exampel for a perfect plan perfect work flow work space and a full automatic feed pipe system into the barn from the silo. My father became a Ingingeur for industrial farming in the 50ths but got into sale for farm products his talent was more in selling. His brother became CEO of the Gailsche Klinker (Bricks) and became a billionär. My father got divorced and we lost the family. I love modern -traditional building. a stabil foundament and bricks thats importend in strom earas and as a tornado-secure workplace. A tornado can kill the farm stock in 1 minute. One of the best YT canals about traditionell log houses is "NORTHMEN" insolation with wood dust and other old building ways.. If I would be a rich men, I would come to the USA and start a new live in the woods building a log house and off gridd. Its a dream that meby never will come true. Frank from Hamburg
@@michaeldalton8374 Today the building cost in germany for a house- squeer meter 100 cm x 100 cm are 3800 Euros. To build a house with 150 sqeermeter you need 12 months starting with the foundament with cellar and so...
I was surprised to see at 3:02 on this clip, you showed one of the barns in Lino Lakes. That barn was actually located in Blaine, just south of Main street a short distance and east of Lexington Avenue. I drove by it often and appeared to be well taken care of but was a victim to urban development. The farm was identified as the Finn farm. It was quite an impressive barn and silo.
Would of made an incredible garage of antique and race cars. One or two transporters and the rest 50,60 and 70’s cars.A racing black and white checkered roof and red,white and blue American flag on the other. My little fantasy of a 37 year career truck driver some say are the last American cowboys. Had to retire with a bad heart. Maybe next time around. I do respect a hard working farmer.
Fantastic story! What a journey and yep that German ingenuity! Sad all that work and no heirs. Christmas is coming up Thanksgiving also would be interesting and I think great to imagine being a guest at Christmas time at their home and farm.
Very important lesson, you can work very hard your whole life but if you don't get some children going, you may as well sell it all immediately, children are the future and lifeblood of ones family, sounds naive but really isn't. I felt sad hearing that this Farm couldn't even be hold for 2 Generations. Very interesting story, thank you!
Yes I think the people of the township should restore the barn and silos and turn it into a museum. It would definitely be a shame for that to rot away or a tornado take it out.
I just finished restoring a 100+ year old barn in Georgia (Peach county) and it has no return on investment but I wanted to keep the heritage alive maybe another 100 years?
if youre historical society has enough money(like they do in lancaster pa) they move any historical structure to a different location. say if the state wants to buold a highway or a family has sold the land to a developer, my historical society(someone has millions) money gets donated and structures get relocated. its amzing! piece by piece. Just read about the Star Barn in lancaster pa.
Nice looking Barn,I'm in lower Michigan and there are a few of that style of Barn around here(Michigan) . I don't know if there oak brick Co. But there very nice to look at I tell you what.
It would be a crime if this barn isn't totally restored and designated a national historic site for it's history and it's size! I'd like to know where the biggest barn was built and if it still stands, if this isn't it, I'll bet it's close!
Well presented. I hope the barn will continue to be cared for; it is a treasure of architectural and social history.
It would be a crime for this beauty to fall in disrepair. This barn ROCKS !!!!!
That is America for you. What a great historical story...come to America, work hard, and do well, and then pass on a wonderful legacy. This family totally represents the American Dream. Good for them.
gotta give props for the research that went into this!
I have driven by this beautiful barn, first with my Grandparents, then with my parents, then with my Husband and children, and now with my Grandchildren! Hopefully it will continue to be an amazing site for another 50 years! 🕺
It is a pretty cool barn, can hardly see it anymore!
@@MNBricks what do you mean"I can hardly see it anymore"?
Wow, such a special look back into farming history. Seems like the Schumacher family had good genes. Very cool.
Unfortunate that those good genes stopped with them
What an excellent story and family. The strength of a mother to carry on and the children prospering. Just lovely.
Wow what a great story 👏 thank you from Toronto Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😀 👍 👏 🙏
Love these videos Sir! Having grown up on a farm in Wisconsin, I can attest to the hidden beauty in barns and silos. This example is stunning, and I appreciate all your hard work researching the history and family behind it. I never knew about A.C.O. silos either. Now I'm glued to your channel! Keep them coming!
That is a beautiful barn.
I would like to see it some day.
What a wonderful story about American heritage. Yes I think it's a monument and should be preserved for prosperity. Thank you very much
Well done Sir. Thank you for all your hard work and resurch!
Great narrative....the Schumacher family were blessed and left behind them a legacy with that barn and silos. Preservation of wealth is key and the barn did just that.
Love your stuff. Please keep,it going.
A Beautiful account of history, Thank you.!
Yes, that's the best barn I've ever seen. I was raised in northern Illinois. There were a couple of barns we had access to. Nothing nearly as big as the one in your story. I can't forget how much fun we had jumping from the loft into the hay. Great Midwest memories.
As a 5th generation farm family I found this video very interesting. The barn is beautiful, and built in a style not often seen here in Pennsylvania. Thank you for sharing this video!
Brick is something you think of in Boston. Not here.
I’ve never seen another ACO barn and silo so yes I’d say they is the most beautiful one. That’s a wonderful story.
As a child my family often traveled from Wisconsin to Minnesota, westward across the Mississippi on I-90. I always roused from reading or napping once we approached the rapidly changing and beautiful landscapes from Coon Valley on…undulating hillsides, intriguing estuaries of the Mississippi, across the bridge to LaCrescent with its steep limestone cliffs, past an idyllic little farm impossibly nestled into a deep valley, and onward into the flat plains where broad-hatted men and boys plied their horse-drawn implements. From there I tended to lay back again and let my father cruise on past Rochester, Austin, and, if we didn’t turn north at Albert Lea to visit one set of grandparents, it was on to Blue Earth, Fairmont, and a last sprint north to little Trimont and home.
So I had always wondered why so many barns among my family in Minnesota tended to have these beautiful brick foundations-perhaps 8-10 feet high-with white painted wood above. My guess is that what began as the economy and utility of lime and whitewash became a tradition over time. A grandfather that moved from Trimont to a farm near Fairibault had one of those cathedral-like brick and white barns on his dairy farms. And I might add that he also had a small outbuilding known as the “Bean Shed”. My young assumption was it was meant for soybean storage until I realized how poorly suited for such use it would have been. My father laughed when I asked about it. He told me that a Mexican family drove up every year to help with the sugar beet harvest. The shed was so named since its annual visitors cooked very little for themselves to eat other than tortillas and beans and a weekly chicken.
Interesting and well done. Would have been interesting to see some detail photo of inside barn.🇨🇦
Totally agree! On business in 2018ish, I had the chance to see a barn very similar to this at the Marlboro State psychiatric state hospital in New Jersey,which was built in the 30’s along with it’s sister institution Greyson’s in North Jersey. These institutions had working farms which supplied most of the food to the hospitals. It was a magnificent sight to see but also saddened because of neglect because of the closure of both institutions. The architectural design and craftsmanship of the arched rafters were so impressive that it left me in wonderment of how it was laid out and erected. Each rafter had so many segments of wood which were pained together to create the arch roof. Seeing this makes me wonder if the used same plans. Thanks for the upload of the video.
Thank you so much for going into the history of this magnificent barn & Silos. I'm and old farm boy from Southwest Michigan. My Dad grew up milking cows and he dispised milk cows, but we raised cattle and hogs. I've been in many old barns stacking baled hay, unfortunately there aren't many remaining today. I witnessed and old barn get hit by lightning around 1966 and of course it burned to the ground, before fire department could arrive. There were some Silos like this North East of Kalamazoo, Michigan years ago.
I would love the opportunity to explore this Barn!! 🤠👍
Thank you for all the research on an obscure item. Compared to other barns this would be massive. Hard work built the farmstead so this is a fitting reminder to them family and the evolution of agriculture
Most amazing family and for your presentation of both
A great video showing a interesting era in farming history. I knew Bill Bolin. He was always interested in history of the area of SW MN.
He was a great man.
I'm not sure why yt recommended this video to me but I'm so glad they did.
Well done Sir. Great research excellently presented.
That must of been the Talk of the County when that Giant was built! Incredible!! Thank you for your Research!!!
Fascinating video.
that is a very beautiful piece of historical architecture, it needs to be heritage listed and preserved, preferably as a tourist attraction....
It’s certainly a beautiful and interesting building, which would be well worth preserving.
Bricks are my favorite cuboid-shaped objects
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
Shingled a few of those old barns, it's a shame most are gone, wind weather and neglect being the problem, even the old churches are gone
such a treasure of history and architecture. Not to mention the very hard work.
What is very interesting is that they constructed the Barn and the Silos in the depths of the
Great Depression - apparently they were not in debt, and were able to weather the economic
storm with few problems.
The only people who were really affected by the Great Depression were city folk who made all their money off the stock exchange. If most of the money wasn't in stock but in land and physical assets- such as a farm, then the depression would have much less of an impact on their fortunes.
@@geigertec5921 I am sorry, but you are COMPLETELY WRONG. In the United States, the Depression
BEGAN in the Farm regions, in the years 1927 and 1928, as sudden declines in overseas markets
and market saturation led to massive decreases in commodity prices. As farm prices dropped,
farmers were unable to repay their Mortgages and 'Seed Loans' . The Banks began to foreclose
on farms, and then found that they were unable to sell the foreclosed assets, leading to Bank
Failures and Bank Runs.
It was this sudden loss of purchasing power by rural farmers which began to impact the
profits of the major industrial corporations in the USA, resulting in the Stock Market Crashes
of 1929 and 1932. They were the RESULT of the Depression, NOT the cause of it !
During 1933, at the depths of the Great Depression, more than 200,000 farms underwent
foreclosure.
( This was just ONE YEAR ! ) Foreclosure rates were higher in the Great Plains
States and some Southern States than elsewhere. As farms became less valuable, land prices
fell, too, and farms were often worth less than their owners owed to the bank. Farmers across
the country lost their farms as banks foreclosed on mortgages.
The years of the Great Depression were also the years of the Great Midwestern Drought, which
gave rise to the Dust Bowl. When the dryness, heat, and grasshoppers destroyed the crops,
farmers were left with no money to buy groceries or make farm payments. Some people lost
hope and moved away. ( This is the origin of the stories of the 'Okies ' , displaced Oklahoma
Wheat Farmers who had lost their lands, and ended up moving the California, Oregon, and
Washington to seek work. )
The vast projects of the Roosevelt Administration were really efforts to get money to rural
farmers who were going, or had gone, bankrupt. TVA, Hoover Dam, Columbia River Project,
the list is almost endless, were projects designed to employ unemployed rural men and provide
their families with some form of sustenance.
@@paulrward when you look at the monetary policy in those days it makes better sense of the the depression. Early 1929 the fed began raising interest rates. Like you said, decline in oversea markets killed trade. The market bubble popped and in the spring of 1930 the market was halfway back to its all time high. But as soon as the smoot and hawley tariff began to make its way through congress it fell again. The tariffs is what killed rural America and killed investor confidence. The nail in the coffin was two years later when the income tax was practically doubled. Roosevelt came in with a promise of smaller government and less spending but proceeded to do the opposite raising debt by 83% and increased spending by 75%. After two terms of fdr unemployment was still at the same percentage it was when he entered office.
@@fsca72 That's right - and if it hadn't been for WW2, we would STILL be in Roosevelt's Depression !
However, The Smoot-Hawley Tarriffs were a response to British Tarriffs on U.S. Goods being sold
in the British Empire - including agricultural products. During WW1, Britain had made a 'Gentleman's Agreement' with Woodrow Wilson that, if the U.S. assisted Britain with Loans, War Materiel on credit, and use of U.S. Ports and the Panama Canal to ship Briitsh Cargoes, that, after WW1 was over, the U.S. would get ' Special Privileges' to trade in the British Empire.
During the 1920s, the U.S. was granted these privileges, but as the Depression began in Britain in the mid 1920s, those privileges were quietly revoked, and U.S. corporations and U.S. shipping firms lost their ability to trade in British Empire ports. The result was U.S. corporations lost markets they had spent a decade developing, and, in response, the U.S. put tarriffs on British goods being shipped into and through the U.S. This put a crimp on British trade with Canada, and restrictions on British tonnage going through Panama inhibited their trade with China and Australia/New Zealand.
It was a Trade War - but , despite the claims of Marxist College Historians, the blame did NOT rest
on the United States, but rather on Great Britain - who ended up suffering far worse than did the
United States, as the U.S. could feed itself, while Britain, and parts of the Empire, relied on U.S.
Agricultural products for their very survival.
My Grandfather was in the Banking Industry in the 1920s- he explained this all very carefully
to me, as well as how he protected his wealth and assets during the Depression, and when
it, and WW2 was over, did VERY well financially.
@@paulrward I agree with what your saying. What you explain adds to the point I was making, that a roller coaster ride of monetary policy created a roller coaster economy. I can’t totally agree about the war ending it though. Realistically it ended after the war. When Truman restored investor confidence.
Yes, it's an amazing barn. Amazing family, too.
Have taken a few pictures of the barn from the road.. It's sad to see some of these old farms disappear.. They had some amazing things that made each one unique.. Thanks for the story.. Did not know who owned it.. My family came to MN in 1884 and lived in Morgan MN around Gilfillan .
I agree! Most beautiful ochs barn still standing.Thank you for this wonderful history
Very interesting video. A credit to the hardworking industrious people featured in it.
Glorious barn
The old barns have life to them
That's a gorgeous barn.
What a story. Really enjoyed the history of this family.
Although it would be a drive, from MN, to Indiana, or rather to say, Indiana has a few amazing barns, that I personally do not know much about, other then they are old, built by the Amish, and are exceptionally well built. The first time I seen one, I though it was fairly new, and asked the owner "How much a barn like this costs?" and her replay was "About $875"....... Umm What? Did I miss something here, just one of those 14" x 16" x 20' long hard oak beams is like $5K and there is like 50 to 60 of them...LOL... Please help me understand what I am missing.. That is when she said it is like 90 years old to 120 years old... I was blown away, as the structure is new looking. I asked if it had been refurbished or something, and no, it hasn't. I finally got up to speed at her angle she was coming from, and of course, the question of primary importance, "What would a barn like this cost today to have made?
This is what is amazing, and disturbing at the same time. She mentioned it is a two part (at least) answer.
No 1. Not going to happen, at least in the state of Indiana. Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and a few other surrounding states, due to the type of native trees needed for such a structure, as per the age of the trees. The slow growing hard wood trees needed, have very minimal knots, due to how slowly they were naturally allowed to grow, were as today, certain species of trees are engineered to grow exceptionally fast, like a few pine species which those serve their function in basic construction
No 2. For insurance value, that (approx) 80' wide x 150' long barn, is estimated to cost about $2 to $3 million dollars if one was to be built, That is a starting price point, as buying old naturally grown hardwoods, that are that tall, low knots, let alone, they would have to come from other states farther away then the location of Indiana. I suppose, the cost would be less, if the barn was being built in the state / area where the trees are at? I do not know all the fancy names of each part of a barn, but, the "slats" is what I will call them, is attached at a 45 degree angle, or rather, to say, not parallel to the floor, when looking at the walls. It creates a herringbone aspect on the inside, and just amazing looking. Every stud, (which is HUGE) the direction of the slats change or alternate the 45 degree lay, or zig zag effect. The barns are super strong, due to the balance of WxHxL ratio, which I believe she called Hibonacci ratio or sequence of Fibinoccie ratio or sequence, which I don't know much about, other then it creates a golden ratio of strength, as it incorporates the arch stability from the point peak to the floor base. The entire structure, from what I could tell, is assembled with tongue and grove and wooden dowel pins and wedges, as every single locking joint, is exactly matching one another, like art work.
I am also amazed at the wonder of how they erected such a structure. Just one of the studs as large and long as they are, has got to weigh at least 4000 lbs and there is like at least 50 of them. My imagination runs wild thinking about a bunches of horse daisy chained together, to pull one around, let alone, cantilever up to its resting position that creates the curved side A-frame structure. I have no clue how they did it, or how long it took and how many men/likely family's it took to build such a structure and how long?.... Knowing the Amish, I wouldn't be surprised if it was only like 4 men, and 2 days...LOL... They are some hard core working Kats, that is for sure.
I hope this isn't out of line, to write a novel of Indiana barns. but, if so, please feel free to delete my comment, I will fully understand, and not be offended. I enjoy the channel, either way.
I have always found barns captivating and a ready subject for long conversations at parties.
so glad I found your reporting here. thank you for recounting this family's story.
That barn needs to be restored fully.
What a great story, thank you! And a beautiful barn. ( The white one you showed in Grand Forks, in the first part, was torn down not to long ago )
This has to be put on the national historical registry
What a well presented look into the past of farming. Hope the barn is going to be preserved and even a coat of paint to stand tall for another 90 years.👍
I live in Indiana I have a barn that looks a lot like this barn we bought it from the family that built it and said they were visiting family in Wisconsin and came upon a barn they liked and asked about it found out info and had one built. It was built in 1954 instead of brick it has poured concrete walls it’s dimensions are 40x90 with a 30x30 bump out front granary. When I seen the video it caught my eye seeing how similar the barns are. Great video
Wow that was fascinating I really enjoyed it and yes it is a fabulous work of living art it should be a heritage site
Really well done. Thanks!
I speak German as my mother tongue. It's always amazing how Americans pronounce German words and names. Thanxs for these very interesting videos and Greetings from Austria
Buetiful barn and silos
Well researched and presented.
I love watching this video.
The family history is so rich
Really nice job with this video. It's too bad what has happenned to Minnesota.
What happened to Minnesota?
Minnesota is led by a bunch of Marxists Leftist. We are reaping what we have sown Our worthless Governor said. Don't worry about out state MN there is nothing out there but Rocks and Cows. Gotta love those Democrats!!!
@@jamjar5716 It's a leftwing cesspool.
Forgive me for asking, but what has happened to Minnesota ? Genuine question from a non American 🙂
I think it is absolutely lovely! Thanks for sharing.
Too bad people are not saving this history? My uncles, grandfathers (both), great grandfather, and great great grandfather were farmers. All of their farms are either gone or the barns are falling apart---more rubble than barn. Buildings like these show so much history of the midwest.
Your videos are amazing. All the research put into these videos is what makes them so special. Thank you for sharing them!
I like your videos so much I’m from California and I spent three months in Minnesota the Pipestone and Lake Benton area in 1999 and I love history so I stayed at the Calumet inn for three months I love that place and I love that town and that whole area being from California I just love the Minnesota culture and history thanks for your video any reply or feedback on the Calumet inn
Our 1888 barn yet stands. Sad to witness these great structures crumble.
Although the barn appears to be in fair shape the wood work needs upkeep. Let's hope the interior woodwork is in restoration shape. My personal opinion is the barn is one of a kind. It is quite possible the only one of its kind left standing in fair condition. Frankly it's should be preserved under the preservation act. It should also be restored. Their are likely federal monies for this. It is a national treasure. Thank you James Chryst
Fabulous Barn, fabulous history.
well done. beautiful barn!
There is two round barns that are located in Carver County .
The first round barn is located 5 south of cologne, mn heading towards bell plain, mn.
The other round barn is 5 miles west of cologne, mn.
Both of these barns are still standing and still used everyday
Man these are the kind of historical videos I long for on CZcams. I love your videos, you have a subscriber for life
Thank you! What a wonderful, informative video.
I have no conceivable notion why this video was suggested to me. I watched it, and best to you all in whatever you dream.
thank you for making this video.
thank you....
Sure we is an amazing story, and barn!!!
It fulfils much of the definition of a Cathedral.
I would have liked to have seen real-time film of the barn inside the barn
Just quick point, Mr Schumacher would have been a Shoe maker not a cobbler,which is a shoe repair man. Some of my ancestors were shoemakers ,known as Cordwainers. They made fine shoes from top quality leather.
It's about 2-1/2 or 3 miles south east of Fairfax.
we have a Aco silo on our family farm by hanska lake too! neat to see some history on all this
Great job enjoyed your video
great video and information
Just think back in those days they built barns like that in two days!
Greats and love from Hamburg in Germany where the Hamburgers came from. I am a facility manager with "a love for the US-history" and culture. 20% of US Citizen have german roots.
Germans love to build for hundret and more years. In Hamburg we have homes that are 400 years young. Germany pay more for the quality of a building and americans love to build big fast easy and with no real foundament. They build 3 times bigger a house then the German.
Germans belive in an investment in building high quality. Long therm. Americans build for -30 years or some more. Stones concrete wood clay- natural products are good. Americans love fake insolation like mineral wool- styropoor.
Minesota has a lot tornados and strong winds. Germans know much about strong winds and storms thats why they check out the wind direction and build the building with an optimal form.
My grandfather was the "General Director der Deutschen Keramikwerke" he was the boss or all bosses of ceramik- that time in Polend and when "the communist" came he run from them to the free zone. After the war- he devoloped the brick "Gailsche Klinkerwerke" a jellow brick that was hard like no other brick in west germany. Hisi first big coustomer became the "Grindelhochhäuser" because the brick was so strong they could build more then 10 floors!
The Schumachers Barn is a perfekt exampel for a perfect plan perfect work flow work space and a full automatic feed pipe system into the barn from the silo. My father became a Ingingeur for industrial farming in the 50ths but got into sale for farm products his talent was more in selling. His brother became CEO of the Gailsche Klinker (Bricks) and became a billionär.
My father got divorced and we lost the family.
I love modern -traditional building. a stabil foundament and bricks thats importend in strom earas and as a tornado-secure workplace. A tornado can kill the farm stock in 1 minute.
One of the best YT canals about traditionell log houses is "NORTHMEN" insolation with wood dust and other old building ways..
If I would be a rich men, I would come to the USA and start a new live in the woods building a log house and off gridd. Its a dream that meby never will come true.
Frank from Hamburg
I enjoyed reading your comment, sir.
@@michaeldalton8374 pardon my englisch. I speak better then I write...And I love this canal and the content. alot German infos..
@@michaeldalton8374 Today the building cost in germany for a house- squeer meter 100 cm x 100 cm are 3800 Euros. To build a house with 150 sqeermeter you need 12 months starting with the foundament with cellar and so...
THAT IS AMAZING, THEY BETTER NEVER TEAR THAT DOWN!!!!!!!
I was surprised to see at 3:02 on this clip, you showed one of the barns in Lino Lakes. That barn was actually located in Blaine, just south of Main street a short distance and east of Lexington Avenue. I drove by it often and appeared to be well taken care of but was a victim to urban development. The farm was identified as the Finn farm. It was quite an impressive barn and silo.
Would of made an incredible garage of antique and race cars. One or two transporters and the rest 50,60 and 70’s cars.A racing black and white checkered roof and red,white and blue American flag on the other. My little fantasy of a 37 year career truck driver some say are the last American cowboys. Had to retire with a bad heart. Maybe next time around. I do respect a hard working farmer.
Fantastic story! What a journey and yep that German ingenuity! Sad all that work and no heirs. Christmas is coming up Thanksgiving also would be interesting and I think great to imagine being a guest at Christmas time at their home and farm.
Beautiful barn
great info, i would love to own that barn.
Very important lesson, you can work very hard your whole life but if you don't get some children going, you may as well sell it all immediately, children are the future and lifeblood of ones family, sounds naive but really isn't. I felt sad hearing that this Farm couldn't even be hold for 2 Generations.
Very interesting story, thank you!
Wonderful....thanks.
Jamesway manufactured silo unloaders also and possibly manure handling systems at one time.
Hay Trolleys too! Most any farm related tooling.
Yes I think the people of the township should restore the barn and silos and turn it into a museum. It would definitely be a shame for that to rot away or a tornado take it out.
I just finished restoring a 100+ year old barn in Georgia (Peach county) and it has no return on investment but I wanted to keep the heritage alive maybe another 100 years?
if youre historical society has enough money(like they do in lancaster pa) they move any historical structure to a different location. say if the state wants to buold a highway or a family has sold the land to a developer, my historical society(someone has millions) money gets donated and structures get relocated. its amzing! piece by piece. Just read about the Star Barn in lancaster pa.
There is a barn that is very similar to that on Route 9 East of Bloomington Illinois I believe is where it's at
i d like to explore inside next time.
Nice looking Barn,I'm in lower Michigan and there are a few of that style of Barn around here(Michigan) . I don't know if there oak brick Co. But there very nice to look at I tell you what.
It would be a crime if this barn isn't totally restored and designated a national historic site for it's history and it's size! I'd like to know where the biggest barn was built and if it still stands, if this isn't it, I'll bet it's close!
It really bothers me when I see the old barns falling down that people don’t maintain them
Love history