The halls outside Grade 4 at St. Paul once again are filled with replicas of Bicentennial Barns from Ohio counties. Students crafted the barns as part of a social studies project. Each student also compiled a report providing information about the county. The Ohio Bicentennial Commission's barn painting program started as a unique means of getting free, highly visible advertising. It grew into a cultural phenomenon, with nearly 2,000 Ohio barn owners volunteering their barns for painting, and scores of people traveling across the state to visit as many of the barns as possible. By September 2002, artist Scott Hagan completed his five-year mission of painting the Bicentennial logo on at least one barn in each of the 88 counties. If you are interested in the Bicentennial barns, click on the headline to go to a website which shows barns in each of the counties.
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