A Barn's War of 1812 Tales-- Part 1

From the March 21, 2012, SoMd News.com "19th century barn shelters tales of War of 1812" by Jason Babcock.

On top of a hill overlooking the Patuxent River, there is a barn that long-told tales say was used as cover while American militia were firing at British soldiers.  Leonard Copsey, 91, remembers stories and wants the barn to be preserved.  His house if just down the hill from it.

A storm blew its roof off and Copsey replaced it, but its cedar logs are original.

However, the Maryland Trust dates the barn to around 1840 as "Murray's Log Tobacco Barn.  That makes it one of the few-surviving examples of the 19th century single-crib tobacco barns which were common from the 1860s to 1870s. 

More to Come.  --Brock-Perry