Credits
Photos 1 & 2 by Tom Plimpton (1984).
Photo 3 Google street view (June 2023).
Photo 4 U.S. Geological Survey satellite image (Mar. 26, 1999).
Photo 5 Google satellite image (May 11, 2022).
Other Information
The barn and other buildings in the site configuration shown in Photos 1 & 2 are clearly visible in Historic Aerials' imagery (1981). The distancer measurement tool was used to obtain the decimal coordinates for the barn. The coordinates were input to the Google map program and the reference pins on Photo 4 & 5 are the location where the Mail Pouch barn was once located.
The time gaps in the Historic Aerials' imagery indicate that the Mail Pouch barn was gone by 1998. The exact year not know due to the gap in the Hiatoric Aerials' image record.
Photo 4 is a March 1999 satellite image that shows the original US-231 (red line) to the right of the superimposed 4-lane US-231 which had not yet been completed. To the left of the superimposed US-231 is the superimposed E County Rd 250 N which had not been completed as of 1999. The building to the left of The Mail Pouch barn in Photo 1 is circled in blue in Photo 4. Photo 5 is a May 2022 Google satellite image which shows the completed 4-lane US-231 and E CR-250 N to the left of US-231. Note that the route of E CR-250 N goes almost direclty over the old location of the Mail Pouch barn. Photo 3 is a view from new E DR-250 N looking in at the old Mail Pouch barn location.
Phto 1 is a view of the north end of the barn; and, Photo 2 is a view of the south end of the barn.
Where to find it *GONE* (razed and removed) Along the west side of US-231 north of IN-66 by 1.4 miles. The barn was on the left side of US-231 headed north from IN-66. Two ends. Black backgrounds.
