It is not difficult to imagine the wear on a barn from years of active farming and the changing Pennsylvania seasons. In the spring of 1875, two brothers, Samuel F. Frey and William H. Frey, painters by trade, and Hiram C. Lady, a carpenter's apprentice, began painting the Spangler's Pennsylvania bank barn. All three signed their names below using the red-toned paint finish used on the rest of the barn. An additional signature in the top right of the preserved area is that of Beniah Spangler, the youngest child of George and Elizabeth Spangler, born in 1848.
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