In 2003, when Ohio marked 200 years of statehood, 88 barns across the state were painted with a distinctive Ohio Bicentennial logo. Each became a roadside landmark, a quiet signal that history was not confined to courthouses and monuments but lived in fields and fence lines. One of those barns stands in southern Delaware County.
Or rather, stood.
This year, that Delaware County Bicentennial Barn is being carefully taken apart board by board inside McCammon Creek Park in Orange Township, preparing for a move to a new foundation a short distance away. What might look at first glance like demolition is actually preservation in motion. The barn is not being removed. It is being reborn. And when it returns, it will carry both its past and its future under the same roof…