Area Round Barns in 1970

The county paper did a story on the round barns in the area in 1970.

This round barn on the Reuben Sell farm east of Sutton was featured in Nebraska History magazine along with other Clay County round barns. Clay and Lancaster Counties each had four round barns, more than any other Nebraska counties. 

There were a total of 36 round barns in the state. In the upper left here is the best preserved Clay County round barn in 1970. It was on the Dana Gail Schliep farm a mile south of Fairfield and was in use. The barn in the upper right was on the Earl Fate farm southwest of Clay Center. It was believed to have been built in 1914 by H. M. Graham. The barn at the lower left was located three miles east of Edgar and was built in 1910.

The fourth barn in this collage is clearly not round but it made the cut for the article as a brick barn, solid brick. Not a usual thing.

The article accompanying the photo of the four barns on June 25, 1970 goes into detail about these barns. 

The headline in the article is was kind of an unfortunate sign of the times, or something.