The Pole Barn

As the first summer at Millerville wound down and fall settled over the property, a practical question came into focus: where would everything go when the season ended? Campers, equipment, tools — all of it needed shelter from the Ohio winter. The answer was a pole barn, and the decision to build one didn’t take long.

The barn itself was purchased as a kit from a local lumber yard, which made the project manageable — but it still took real work to bring it to life. For that, David turned to a crew of local Amish craftsmen, whose reputation for honest work and fair prices made them the easy choice. Over several weekends, the structure took shape on the land, framed out and raised with the kind of quiet, skilled efficiency that’s something to watch.

When the work was done, Millerville had a 40′ x 50′ pole barn — a substantial and enduring anchor for the property. It’s housed campers through countless winters, kept equipment dry through every spring thaw, and proven its worth many times over in the two decades since it first went up.

2021 Update: Twenty years in, the barn got a long-overdue upgrade — a full cement floor. It only took two decades to get there, but some things are worth the wait. This prevents many of the “critters” who would call the barn home during the winter months.