History of Our Barnwood
The wood in this building had a first life on a farm west of here.
It came from a barn at 4306 W. Baldwin Road, built in 1863. That barn stood on the original Mundy Farm. The Mundy family, who gave the township its name, came from Genesee County, New York.
It was a white-pine barn: balloon-framed, two stories, with a square hip roof.
On April 12, 2014, a storm with vertical wind shear destroyed it. In May 2014 the wood was salvaged and reclaimed. That wood was used here, at The Barn in Fenton.
The name carries a California note as well. In the 1950s, surfboard shapers carved boards in local barns, the “surf barns” this place is named for.