In 1938 local businessman Eugene B. Casey built his barn, which was used as a dairy barn. All the lumber to build the barn came from Casey's farms that were located across from one another on Frederick Avenue. The 60 cows at the dairy barn produced 300 gallons of milk a day, which were sold to the Thompson and Chestnut Farms dairies. Casey's barn had a secondary life as a signboard, most notably for political candidates in the 1940s, as shown in the picture above. The dairy barn soon became a local landmark.
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Frank Emerson | 9/17/09 | My mother who was raised in Gaithersburg, said that the government has leased Casey's Barn for research work, and that Roosevelt himself had visited the site many times. |
| Fred | 4/7/11 | Today I think its home to a community center and some good-will type meetings like AA. |
| Jay Noffsinger | 8/11/11 | In he 1960's growing up in neighboring Rosemont, we explored these barns extensively, often getting chased off by "Old Man" Casey. |
| Margie Hickman | 9/23/11 | Traveled by this farm every day to go to school in Gaithersburg. Lived on the Stecklien Farm on Shady Grove for 25 years |
| Deborah Reed-Boden | 12/19/12 | John F. James, another friend & I took photos of the barn inside & out when it was decaying in the early 70's. We lobbied to have it preserved. John is now in Florida, I'm in Costa Rica. Anyone know the third party anymore & where they are? My brain ain't what it was! |
| reba m | 9/29/15 | I remember going on a school outing from Holy Trinity grade school in Georgetown all the way to Gaithersburg to a dairy farm in the 50's. I'm pretty sure this was the dairy farm that we city kids went to. It's one of my most fun memories as a child. |
| Leah Haworth | 2/24/16 | This was the site of our Gaithersburg High School prom breakfast in 1988. Now I take belly dancing lessons there through the city programs. |
| Angie Baker | 10/25/16 | I grew up in Montgomery Co. Germantown when there was nothing there."class of 88" SV.... So it was always an event to go to Gaithersburg for errands & shopping and I always remembered the awesome Halloween Haunts at Casey's Barn but times ever! |
| DAVID FISHMAN | 7/28/19 | As a young boy growing up in Rosemont in the 1960s, my friends and I would explore the dilapidated barn, cow bones and all. Scary place for little kids . I do however remember it had a great sledding hill. |
| Frank Stanek | 9/20/19 | I taught classes at Casey in the '70's. There were pictures on the wall of the research done to developers Salk vaccine that eliminated polio. |
| David Wong | 9/27/20 | Gaithersburg Chinese Alliance Church held Sunday worship services here from 1985 to 1988. The church now have their own building on Darnestown Road. In 2019, Gaithersburg International Christian Fellowship was launched to serve the international community. |
| Betsey Alden Casey Metz | 10/21/20 | I was only 4 years old but I remember my parents all dressed up as a farmer and a milkmaid leaving for the barn-warming they were throwing across the pike from our house up on the hill on Shady Grove Rd. My mother said that travellers along 240 (now 355) stopped to see what was going on and that she had to call on Mr. Walker to open his store to bring more provisions for the party-goers. Those were the days!! Am I the only one left alive who remembers that barn's beginning? All my siblings and I have streets named in Rosemont. Rose was my grandmother plus Alden, Virginia, Eugene. The Nancy Corporation built Rosemont and Henry and Hampton worked for my dad. |