This crib or barn was moved to its current site in 1986 from property once known as the John Kirk Farm, on Mallard Creek Road in Charlotte.

Corn was the staple food crop for both people and livestock in the early 19th century. After havesting the corn around October, it was stored in the narrow pens designed for better circulation to help keep any damp or still green corn from molding. Corn was stored either with or without shucks. One of the most popular events held on early farms were the corn shuckings where neighbors and nearby slaves may have all gathered together to do the work. Mounds of corn could be piled two stories high and the shuckings often concluded with a meal and a dance.
There are references to several types of farm equipment in the

Latta estate sale that were associated with growing corn including corn harrows, a corn mill and a cutting box that may have been use to chop up corn stalks for animal food called fodder.