In the year 1809 John Chandler built a barn on the site of his original building, eighty feet long and forty four feet wide. This was only eight years after the ring of the settlerÕs axe had first been heard in the township, and seven years from the harvesting of the first crop. Up to this time the inhabitants had as a rule provided themselves with some cheap substitute for a barn.

This barn towering from an elevated site in the Chandler opening, like the school boyÕs exclamation point, excited wonder and surprise in the minds of many. Others were filled with admiration of the courage that carried its conception to a successful result, and a faith that led to the expectation that the barn would ever be filled with crops.

In the construction of the barn, Seba French, afterwards known as Judge French of Dexter, was the master carpenter. The nails used in its construction were wrought by the hand of a common blacksmith. Some of them have been preserved as curious relics of the morning of the present century.