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The historic Maasdam Barns at the Evergreen Ridge Stock Farm are a significant illustration of an early 20th-century draft-horse breeding business.
From 1910 until 1938 the owner of this farm, J. G. Maasdam, raised and sold award-winning draft horses.
The three barns on this farmstead came to be known as the Maasdam Barns, since the owner and his family lived on the farmstead.
The two barns built in 1910 (Stallion and Mare) were apparently designed by the Louden barn design division, an internationally known farm-equipment manufacturer that was headquartered in Fairfield.
Modern barn construction methods, such as poured concrete walls, were used, and they featured Louden Machinery Company barn products.
The third barn (the Show Barn) was apparently built in 1906, by then-owner of the farm, Ellsworth Turney. He had retired from Joel Turney and Company, which built well-known farm wagons and was Fairfield's largest employer in the early 1900's.