The Barn Beside the Road

What follows is unresearched, but is essentially true:

This old barn was built about a century ago beside a dusty track which crossed the Grand River on a marvelous bridge. There were a couple farms in the neighborhood, but the location was remote and rural; the closest town was Portland, a few miles north.

Nowadays the road is paved, most of the other local barns have collapsed, the bridge has been replaced, and Portland's grown into a fairly large town. And Charlotte Highway is surprisingly built up; it's mostly settled for the entire 8 mile run between Portland and Mulliken. But this barn remembers....

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Looks a lot like they ran out of paint, and never got around to finishing the job. Pretty soon they'll need to paint it again.