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In the early 1900s, farmer and cheese maker Fred Gehrig and his family made and sold cheese from this homestead, once a 90 acre farm. Every day except Sunday, farmers brought their milk by horse and wagon or by truck to the cheese house. There was a time when Fred, with a truck drove and picked up milk from local farms. The cheese house had a basement where spring water flowed into a trough where the milk was cooled until it was made into cheese. The 250 to 300 pound wheels of cheese were taken by wheelbarrow to the basement of the house where they were cured in vats. The vats still exist in the basement of the house. Until the mid 1930s, cheese and other dairy products were sold wholesale and retail from an outside door leading to the basement.

Farmer & Cheesemaker, Fred Gehrig & wife Mary (Bigler) Gehrig

Barn Renovation, 1997

A 101 year old Amish man, who was Fred's handyman and cheese maker, shared his thoughts before he died in 1999. He recalled: "That's the third barn on the foundation. The first barn deteriorated and was replaced with a second barn before my time. In 1919, I saw a bolt of lightening that struck the barn, causing it to burn, and I helped build the present barn." Friends, family, neighbors and a general contractor joined in a community effort and had the barn rebuilt within a few months. All of the needed lumber was cut from the trees on the farm.

In the present barn one can see evidence of the previous barns. There are beams with burn and scorch marks; and pegs and notches in beams that were previously in other positions. One hand hewn beam exists in the basement of the barn.

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