Check out restoration of county’s only round barn
To celebrate its recent restoration, the Stuckwish Round Barn will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
After the collapse of the Smith-Hall Round Barn in Carr Township in 2019, the Stuckwish Round Barn became the only one left in Jackson County and one of just 36 in Indiana.
The barn has two floors and is 60 feet in diameter with a self-supporting two-pitch gambrel roof. Beech is used for most of the woodworking of the barn with pine only used for siding. The beech wood came from the Ewing Sawmill in Brownstown, which is no longer in operation.
The barn originally was owned and constructed by George Stuckwish with foreman Daryl Carter. Ownership would later go to his grandson, Donald Stuckwish, and the current owners are his nieces, Rebecca Pownall and Barbara Grassl.
The address is 4400 S. County Road 460W, Vallonia.