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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Four barns on C. E. Ned Johnson’s Sperryville farm were burned to the ground last Friday, Halloween night, in what is suspected to be the third case of arson in the county in the past several months.
According to Johnson, approximately 750,000 pounds of hay was destroyed in the blaze. “It was the darnest pile of hay you ever saw,” said Johnson, reporting that the four buildings were crammed with 400 to 500 of the big. 1,500 pound round bales. In addition, the fire also took a rick two bales wide topped with loose hay between two of the barns, as well as assorted machinery, apple crates and part of a corn field.
One of the barns destroyed was 140 years old. "It was built by my greatgrandparents,” Johnson said. “I had a sentimental interest in it. You just can't put a dollar value on that old log barn. Heck, you just can't put it back with dollars,” said Johnson, a lifelong native of Rappahannock, a farmer and amateur historian who is currently researching the county’s history.
The Johnson home is onehalf mile from the site of the
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