The Stone Barn sits on the
corner of Stone Barn Road and Daysville Road several miles north of
Franklin Grove on what was first a 40-acre tract bought from the
government on March 1, 1848 by Edward S. Hundson. It is surmised that
the barn, an area landmark, was likely built by Hundson in the early to
mid 1850's. The Stone Barn has outlasted the modes of farming and
transportation that passed by it on the Daysville Road, a stage coach
road in the 1830's from Peoria to Lee Center to Franklin Grove to
Daysville and on to Oregon.
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