1918 Barn In Wilbur, Washington, Well Worth the Drive To See

 

How many times have we zoomed out Hwy 2 on our way west, and barely blinked when we went through Wilbur, Washington? And look what we've missed.

Annette Archuleta's photo of this 1918 barn was published in Journey, the magazine of the American Automobile Association in the Winter 2022 issue.  

Victor Whitman had dug up some history on the barn: "According to the Washington Heritage Barn Registry, the farm's original owner, Vic Lauritzen, hired two builders from Denmark to come to Wilbur, and they spent two years constructing the barn by hand. The two weathervanes atop the rood are inscribed with the date 1918."

"Wilbur is in Lincoln County and had a thriving Danish community from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, when roughly a quarter of the inhabitants were first-or second-generation Danes." 

Beside, look what we missed, did we realize that there was a thriving Danish community in Lincoln County? And did we realize that there was a Washington Heritage Barn Registry?? 

There is so much history in Eastern Washington!!!