It was Friday night and Hailey Fountain and two teenage riders from her horse barn were wrapping up a long day at the Big E. They had shown horses all day in at the Big E horse show in the coliseum.
Bill Kirchoff grew up on a 33-acre farm his grandfather purchased for $3,600 in 1906. Near what is now Creve Coeur Park in Maryland Heights, it had a small pasture, but it was developed as an orchard ...
and the main floor has room for 32 horses and 16 dairy cows. Built in 1913, the Johnson round barn, just one of 11 round barns featured in this year's tour, is built almost completely from clay ...