Original barn beam with notches for fittings
When Michael Martz grew up in Ohio, he spent a lot of time playing in an old barn on the family farm. He is now looking to preserve the history by using beams from 150-year old barn in the house he is now building in Pensacola.
Martz, 55, stopped by the car wash in Century this week to spray off the old beams so they would be dry by time he got to his new homesite in the Nature Trail neighborhood in Pensacola.
Martz said his parents bought the farm in 1964 and the barn was 100 years old at time.
"I spent a lot of time playing in the barn," Martz said.
Martz later moved to Pensacola and when he...
