Part I - Agriculture, a supplement to the Big Rapids Pioneer Newspaper. Used with permission.



BUILDING THE BARNS
Barn raisings, an art still practiced by the Amish community, was common-place in the early days of Mecosta County as evidenced here by pictures of the Cummings barn being raised near Barryton and a gathering in Green Township in 1906 to raise a barn for Red Adair Sr. (Pioneer file photos)

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