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Barn at Strawbridge Shrine, New Windsor, Maryland (39.526825, -77.088738)
Felling Date: Primary BarnWinter 1851/2, Winter 1850/1
Site Master 1686-1851 (white oak) BSSMDx1 (t = 11.98 DC-AREA2; 10.43 BBPAx1; 10.39 SHVAx1). Individual timber 1774-1850 (white oak) ssmd2 (t = 6.35 BOHS; 5.33 DC-AREA2; 4.94 MARYLAND).
The historic barn at the Strawbridge Shrine in New Windsor, Maryland, is a three-pen stone and log bank barn.
Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1850/1 and the winter of 1851/2.
Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2022 “The Tree-Ring Dating of the Barn at Strawbridge Shrine, New Windsor, Maryland,” Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory Report 2021/19
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ProprietorsMichael Worthington
Jane Seiter, Ph.D
25 E. Montgomery St.
Baltimore, MD 21230
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