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Download Barnyard1/5/2024 One door opened to the barnyard, the other to the old garden behind the house… “Though rainy days in the shop were fun it's true character came out with sunshine. He could make anything out of anything, from ‘springes to catch woodcock’ or a figure 4 rabbit trap to the set of furniture made of crooked cedar branches which we found at the end of a snowy winter. “There were countless broken things being kept seven years to ‘come in handy’, and handy they did come in for Ross. He spent much of his time here building and repairing the equipment he needed to manage livestock. For Cornelia Floyd Nichols, the shop became forever associated with Charles Ross. Over his 37 years at the Floyd Estate, Ross experienced the changes of the estate, from the decline of the working farm to the use of the estate for gathering friends and family together in the summer sunshine. Windows were cut into the structure to let light into the old shop, as boxes for tools and nails began to litter the space. Constructed in the early 19th century, this structure was originally used as a granary, used to store grains like wheat and rye that were harvested on the site. As farming became less important at the William Floyd Estate, this building was converted into a workshop for Charles H.
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