The late Tomas H. Anthony, paternal grandfather of Minnie Anthony Common  built this barn in a valley between two hills on the dead-end road that goes from Parish Road to Perch River Dam (called the Cooke Road at one time). Joseph Cooke purchased the property in 1897 until he sold it to the DEC. 
Tom Anthony also was known as the inventor of a low, solid-wood-wheeled wagon with a big platform which could be loaded with a railroad carload of baled hay, drawn by six or more horses.
 At the time that this barn was built and used it was the longest barn in Jefferson County.  Some accounts list the barn as much shorter then other accounts  and there seems to be a discrepancy, but after a thorough measurement using GPS with WAAS I found that the 250 foot long measurement is correct. 
  The barn was also 60 feet from the roof to the ground. Horses and wagons loaded with hay could enter either end near the roofline and the hay was dumped down into deep mows on either side, which saved a lot of time at a time when most farm work was done by hand.  The cows and horses were stabled in the bottom part of the barn, in the stone part.  In front of the barn was the farm-house, also long-gone. 
 The DEC took over the land and razed most of it, many years ago.  But I and my father, as well as another amateur historian - Eric H., have made many trips to investigate the ruins of this farm and the surrounding buildings as well as the area around the farm.  Eric has also been doing some metal detecting for artifacts.

  More info about this barn and old pictures of the intact structure at these Nan Dixon pages:  barn, barn1, barn2, barn3, & barn4.  Please note - the picture that is shown on Mrs. Dixon's pages of the house that went with this farm is not the correct house.
 

I've created this map using satellite photos and my GPS, showing markers of locations for all ruins and remaining landmarks.  Click to see the map (large).

An artist's rendering of the Anthony Farm when in full use.  The artist took some liberties or drew it from memory because there are a few inaccuracies.

Also, there is the remains of a limestone drain which went under the barn.  I think this must have been used to allow the inevitable stream to drain, which must have flowed through the valley during the wet seasons.

Note: There is also supposed to be a machinery building somewhere on the other side of the road and slightly down the road from the farm (possibly at one time part of the stone-foundationed house down the road?) but we have found no trace of it so far.

Further toward the Parish Road was another house, also no trace has been found so far.