I knew it would happen eventually but its official, I saw the listing online today.
Sad part is it isn’t being sold as agricultural, its zoned commercial/residential so it will be carved up to become subdivisions and stores.
Good lord I feel so old right now.
I’m sure its happened to lots of other COTHers too but it still sucks.
I’d love to hear stories from your childhood barns that are gone.
Yes, my childhood barn was bulldozed for the expansion of a road. So very sad
Here’s the updated Google maps…
A few years ago, when I was on crutches and unemployed, my mom and I went back to my hometown (she has also since moved away), and went for a trip down memory lane. My childhood farm was bulldozed. Looked like there were putting in a development.
There is a farm in our area on the market that has raised generations of Pony Club kids. It is on the cusp of the town so the odds of it remaining a farm are pretty slim.
Rapers and scrapers is what I call them. That’s what they do to the land. 
My childhood barn is now a 30+ home subdivision of million dollar homes. It took me almost 3 years before I could drive by it when I visited my childhood home without crying. Honestly, the property really went downhill after the son took over but it was where I first fell in love with horses. It saddens me to know that most of the home owners probably have no clue what was once there. If I close my eyes I can still mentally walk through all three barns and even most of the back trails even though it has been 15 years.
my childhood barn is about to be a Costco…
Yeah, my childhood barn became a high school. That definitely hurt. But much worse is the wonderful place they sold in Florida, my last place before I moved. They gave us Boarders 30 days to leave. Then the sale fell through, it’s still empty and sad, over a year later. I had been there over 20 years, raised my kids there, buried some great horses there. I refuse to even look at google maps, it’s too sad. It’s overgrown and obviously neglected, the original owner would roll over in his grave…
When my great uncle died, his farm was sold and his 100+ year old farmhouse was torn down and made into a subdivision. I haven’t been back to my hometown to see it, but it still makes me sad.
My childhood barn is still there, just surrounded by cookie cutter houses on 2 sides.
The barn where I learned to ride is still a lesson/boarding barn, I would be sad to see it plowed under but not devastated. Much worse would be where I board now as my mare is buried there. I know the owner, as much as love her, would sell to the highest bidder developer or not. I can’t imagine an excavator disturbing my mare’s bones. When/If the property goes up for sale I might have to see about having my mare moved.
In the subdivision that was the farm I learned to ride at, one tacky Mc Mansion house sits smack on top of the school horse graveyard.
GO knock on their door! :lol: It’s Halloween, good excuse to tell them NOW.
My favorite boarding barn in the whole world was torn down shortly after I left Washington. I am still devastated over it. The property, which was at least 100 acres, was surrounded by a beautiful wood and stone fence. They had a absolutely gorgeous barn (like magazine quality) and a wonderful covered ring. It’s all gone. It was the last 100 acres of paradise in all of that suburbia.
Next door is an antique barn built with wood floors throughout, the type of wood you can’t buy anymore. I bet it won’t be long until that’s gone too.
My first instructor bounced around a bit, mostly in the Thousand Oaks area. We would drive out the 101 and there was pretty much nothing, not even the signs for the future housing developments. We did make good use of the developments as they were being put in, by jumping up and down the banks created by making housing pads. But now I seriously can’t even figure out where some of those places were when I drive by.
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Ugh
My childhood barn is still there. The owner who kept it all together back then has since died, but her son took over and seems to be doing a good job. It seems like so many times it all depends on one key person
My childhood barn is still there (which is nice for my parents, who still live next door to it). But, many other farms in my area are now houses. It’s sad to drive past them with their street names like “Saddlehorse Way” or “Paddock Lane”. My farrier used to have a bumper sticker that said “Subdivisions: where they knock down the trees then name streets after them”.
Growing up in the early 2000s before the housing bubble burst, I saw many farms get sold out from under us to build housing developments
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My childhood barn is still there. The owner who kept it all together back then has since died, but her son took over and seems to be doing a good job. It seems like so many times it all depends on one key person[/QUOTE]
also depends upon how much the estate was worth at the time of death, sometimes the sale is forced due to estate taxes
Childhood barn is now a subdivision, ironically named after the barn owner
The barn where I leased and trailrode for years as an adult is still there, but the trails are gone. North of the barn is a golf course community and strip malls, south of the barn is a high school and more subdivisions. I try to avoid driving by there - makes me so sad.
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