Carville Driving Tour, Stop #9

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This file appears in: Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

Audio narration for Stop #9 (Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research) on the Carville: The National Leprosarium tour

This file appears in: Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

Carville: Silos for Dairy Barn & Armadillo Research

By Elizabeth Schexnyder, Curator, National Hansen's Disease Museum, Carville, LA

The two silos and barns in front of you were built for a dairy herd in the 1920s. By the mid-1950s, an outside vendor was supplying milk to the Leprosarium and the barn fell into…