The Barnes Home
The Adventure...
Originally built in 1803 by John Barnes Jr., who founded the Party of Henry Clay in Pike County, the Barnes Home served as a center for progressive politics in southern Ohio. Henry Clay himself, and the famous archaeologist Ephraim Squier were regular guests. Abraham Lincoln visited in 1848, in order to see the spectacular Indian earthworks of Sargents, known as the Barnes Works. In 1900, the last passenger pigeon ever seen in the wild was mounted and displayed in the house, then occupied by the former Pike County sheriff, Henry Clay Barnes and his wife, Blanche, who died as a likely result of arsenic poisoning from her taxidermy.
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Getting there is Half the Adventure!
The Barnes Home is located just off of US Route 23 in Sargents. From US 23 turn off onto Wakefield Mound Road and head north.
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