- Collection:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Presentation Slide Collection, 1968-2000
- Title:
- Round Barn in Carroll County
- Creator:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dorough, E. W. (Edmond Walter), 1882-1957
Lovell, Floyd, 1878-1856 - Date of Original:
- 1960/2000
- Subject:
- Architecture
Historic sites--Georgia--Carroll County
Historic buildings--Georgia--Carroll County
Architecture, Domestic--Georgia--Carroll County
Dairy farming--Georgia--Carroll County
Round barns--Georgia--Carroll County
Cultural property--Protection
Historic preservation--Georgia
Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Carroll County, Carrollton, 33.58011, -85.07661
- Medium:
- color slides
dairy barns
historic preservation
historic buildings - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- 1993 views of the Dorough Round Barn and Farm in unincorporated Hickory Level, Carroll County, Georgia, built by E. W. Dorough and designed by Floyd Lovell. Information from its National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination form compiled and submitted by National Register Researcher Kacy Ginn in 1979 provides the following information: The Round Barn is actually a fourteen-sided structure of oak board-and-batten construction. The measurements of the two-story structure were: a diameter of ninety feet and height of forty feet. The Round Barn is architecturally significant because it employed progressive architectural techniques, such as a reinforced, poured concrete foundation as opposed to the more common fieldstone foundation. The round barn design allowed for more utilized floor space and a central silo would enable the farmer to store large amounts of feed in a small, readily accessible location. Many articles in periodicals and books published prior to the construction of the Dorough barn described the advantages of the American centric barn. Publications promoted the construction of circular barns around the turn of the century. Whether publications such as these influenced E. W. Dorough and his decision to build a round barn is not known; however, the county agent of Carroll County had access to such publications, as well as information from the University of Georgia's School of Agriculture. In 1917, E. W. Dorough was encouraged by Carroll County's county agent to establish a dairy operation. Dorough was determined to achieve the easiest method of tending a herd of dairy cattle in building a round barn, patterned after one he had seen in Arkansas. Although the idea of a "round barn" was scoffed at by his neighbors, Borough employed Floyd Lovell to construct it. The Dorough dairy operation began in 1917 with the completion of the round barn, and existed until 1925-26. In 1919, the boll weevil hit the Dorough cotton fields and destroyed all but three bales of cotton. The "heyday" of the farm existed at the time the Round Barn was built in 1917, but the farm never regained its former level of production. Variant names include: Round Barn in Carroll County, Dorough Round Barn and Farm. See ref# 80000986 (Dorough Round Barn and Farm) https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/national-register-listed-20240710.xlsx
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_507
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_507#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/gthp_gthp-slides_507/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
- Rights:
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