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MCAF_100821_046.JPG: The toilet bowl competition
MCAF_100821_134.JPG: Jones log corn-crib
moved to fairgrounds
The County Courier
August 18, 1976
GAITHERSBURG -- The Somerset Jones log corn-crib was moved to the
Montgomery County Fairgrounds Aug. 9 [1976] in preparation for the fair which opens
next Monday.
The building was located on the old Somerset Jones farm at Goshen, north of
Gaithersburg. Although the structure is a rare survivor of its type, the construc-
tion methods are typical of those used on early log buildings in the County. The
massive, hand-hewn walls (mostly of oak, but some may be chestnut) are
squared and joined at the corners with V-shaped notches.
In other log buildings, the spaces between the logs were usually filled with
stones and clay. However, due to the fact that this was used for many years as a
corn crib, the spaces were only partially filled in by split boards -- which kept
rodents out, but allowed the air through to dry the corn. In addition, the corn was
protected by a rough, split-oak fiber and a stone pier foundation. The building
was also used as a smokehouse at one time.
Slate Road:
Perhaps the most unusual feature of the structure is the fact that is has a slate
roof. Only two others log buildings in the county were known to have had slate
roofs, and these were both dwellings. While the roof appears to be a replacement
for the original (a common repair) it still probably dates at least to the turn-of-
the-century, and it is believed that the slate was a local product obtained from a
quarry at Hyattsville, near Sugarloaf Mountain.
The building is over 100 years old, and very possibly dates to the early 19th
century. The Jones family settled about 1800, at a time, when the Goshen Mills
were established along a new road that linked the county with the Baltimore
grain markets. Their ancestors had originally settled in the county in the 1700's
along Cabin John Creek, near the present-day Montgomery Mall area.
The man who made most of the improvements to the farm was Somerset Orme
Jones, who was born in 1835 and died in 1914. he had assumed ownership and
management of the farm by the 1860's -- after his parents had died and most of
his brothers and sisters had married or moved away. ...
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