It takes a village and 10 hours to raise a barn, but only four minutes to watch this clip Rome wasn’t built in a day, but erecting a beautiful barn in under 24 hours is no problem for the Amish ...

Aug. 1—Abraham and Sally Ann Yoder in April purchased a home on four acres at 987 N. Valley Road. When Abraham Yoder looked into getting a building permit for a barn, he learned their new home lies in ...

Colerain Township supervisors have no help to offer Samuel K. Stoltzfus, who has been ordered to remove his new barn because it is too close to the road. Stoltzfus came to the April 6 township meeting ...

When it comes to demonstrating American craftsmanship, nothing says it better than an Amish barn-raising. After nine weeks of old-school construction aided by modern power saws and drills, a crew of ...

A group of area men stopped by to help the Eicher's with a new pole barn on their farm. This week, a group of men and boys braved the cold and put up trusses for the new pole barn. First of all, a ...

-- Don and Sandy Cole have transformed an antique Amish horse barn into a comfortable home on Lake Templene, southeast of Centreville. They bought the barn, with its whitewashed oak and ash timbers, ...

In 18 th - and 19 th-century rural North America, barn-raising was a thing. But these days the Amish are among the last communities to carry on this mostly forgotten tradition in which neighbors ...