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Cow, Chicken and Storage sheds

A little red building with windows and a hatch door for chickens
The chicken house in the barnyard area.

NPS Photo

Access to see this building is limited due to Covid-19.

The Sandburg's kept a family milk cow in this shed and sawdust for the goat barn in the storage shed behind it.

Today the cow shed is used to care for chickens of similar breeds to those Mrs. Sandburg raised. The Sandburg chickens were housed in a building up the road by the main house.  Saw dust for the goat barn is still stored in the shed behind it.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Last updated: February 1, 2021