Sunday, September 03, 2006

What Does a Newer Rock City Barn Look Like?

he Current Rock City barn painters repaint dozens of the older barns, yet also find newer barns to paint for the first time. Right now they maintain just fewer than 100 different barns. This one, pictured below, was painted for the first time within the last 10 years.


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Atop LOOKOUT MTN. Chattanooga Tenn.
231.5 Mi Via
Gravel Switch, KY

There are a couple of clues to distinguish this from some of the older repainted "Clark Byers" barns. First, you can tell by the painted "font", which you can really just get by comparing this to other barns. Second clue is the location. It used to be that all of the barns appeared on major highways, but the location of this barn is at the entrance of Maker's Mark Distillery, which is instead a tourist destination of its own.

The Maker's Mark people built their gristmill distillery in 1805, and is the oldest operating distillery still operational in the U.S. Located on their property include the original master distiller's house, an old toll house, a springhouse, an old fire engine house and a barrel warehouse. All of this is located in Loretto, Ky in Marion county.

This barn is too new to be included in the Jenkins Book.
On OhioBarns.com, it is designated as RCB 17-75-01.
In the Simmonds Book on Page 78.
In Some places, the background paint appears to me to have a greenish tint, but in person, at least when I visited was definitely black.
See its location on a map Here.
LAT 37.6475 / LON -85.3503

EDIT on 1/04/07
Here are two alternate views:
Lyle Canterbury has a view of this barn on his excellent website CountyRoadsPhoto.com. See it HERE.
Mark Abercrombie has also used spectacular effect on his photo of this barn which you can see HERE.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't this barn located at Makers Mark Distillery in Loretta,KY.

3:53 PM, January 10, 2011  
Blogger BrentKMoore said...

It is, However "Gravel Switch" was painted on the barn.

10:33 PM, February 06, 2011  

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