Mail Pouch barns

Here are three of four Mail Pouch barns that I know of in this area. I'll add the fourth when I remember to retrieve the picture:

This first one is on Ohio 93 north of Pedro in Lawrence County.

This next one is on Ohio 7 at the 8-mile marker north of Crown City in Gallia County:

And this one about 3.5 miles north of that one, just below the community of Eureka:

The fourth one is in Mason County, W.Va., along Route 2 a mile or two above the federal facility formerly known as the Gallipolis Locks and Dam. I'll upload it tomorrow, if I remember the picture.

If there are others in this area, please let me know. Meanwhile, I'll try to dig up a little information on how many are out there.

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What gets me most about this is not the loss of Mail Pouch barns themselves, but the loss of barns overall. I grew up on a farm, and I well remember the fun, the smells and the work involved in barns. One of my regrets as a parent is that my kids are growing up in a house that does not have a barn with it.

And the day I took the photos of the two barns in Gallia County, I saw an old barn being demolished. I had no desire to stop and ask those people what in the world they were doing. It was their barn, after all, but I still felt the loss.

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I just found this list of Mail Pouch barns in various states, but it does not have the two Gallia County barns I have above. The list mentions a barn near those two that was torn down several years ago. I remember that barn, too, but it was gone a while back when I was out on a photo expedition. Or as much of a photo expedition as you can have with a point-and-shoot camera. I was about to buy a good digital camera, then I remembered I told my boys they needed new beds. D'oh. Sometimes I hate being a grownup.

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Update: Here is the Mail Pouch barn along Route 2 in Mason County: