This photo from Chapter III the 1949 book "The Genealogy of Michael Korns, Sr. of Somerset County Pennsylvania" shows the Southampton Township, Somerset County farm that belonged to Daniel Korns, Jr., then to John Wilson Korns, and then to Allen Lester Korns. When I visited Lester Korns in July of 1998, he told me that there was once a log barn on this farm out by the road above the house, below where the driveway goes back to the "new barn", i.e. he described the location as where the garage/shed is located at the left hand edge of this picture. In 2009 Uncle Melvin told me that the stone fill that formed the ramp into the barn was centered on the garage, and quite wide. This fill was dozed away onto the road to the new barn. Such ramps were used to get wagons onto what was called the threshing floor, which tells us that the log barn was what is known as a "bank barn" and had at least two two levels.
The barn in this photo is the dairy barn, and the cement block building to it's left is the milk house. The barn is red, trimmed in white. Note the star on the end of the barn, and the fake wooden windows on the side and end of the barn.
When I was little, my parents and I lived in a mobile home that was located to the right (generally west) of the barn. My earliest memories are from living here. We moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania when I was four years old.
In the aforementioned 1949 Korns book, the above photo is mis-labeled as having been the "Original Farm Home of Daniel and Elizabeth (Reiver) Korns." That is incorrect. It was actually the farm home of their son Daniel Korns, Jr. and his wife Caroline (Tressler) Korns.
L. Dietle
January, 2008
Updated April 2, 2025
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