Barn raising
id:
barn-raising-183-11526051
title:
Barn raising
text:
BA barn raising, also historically called a raising bee or rearing in the U.K., is a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community. Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Collective construction by community
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
date created:
2004-01-06T22:59:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T02:00:58Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Barn_Raising_DeKalb_County_IN.jpg","width":586,"height":255}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16