These barns were part of the Cranz Farm that existed prior to the creation of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. They are on Ira Road next to Old Trail School, which itself sits on former corn fields that the Cranz's donated to the school. At Szalay's we farm one of the former Cranz fields on a lease from the park. The farm was originally founded by the Hammond's in 1810 who were contemporaries of the Hales(Hale Farm etc).
One interesting thing about working at Szalay's is learning the first-hand history of the Valley from the 1930's on. Szalay's land is made up of many former farms and I have a few more posts planned on some of them...
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