Sequoyah Caverns is a cave and now-closed tourist attraction in DeKalb County, AL. When the cave first opened commercially, they hired the famous Rock City barn painter Clark Byers to run the operation. I suppose barn painting was still a hobby of his as he painted several of these in the area. (By my count, there are 8 in and around the county.) The Barn seen here is located near the town of Valley Head, AL. Highway AL117 as it heads west out of town curves around a bend where this barn is visible. The last line mentions the barn is 6 miles away on US11. If you look closely you can see an older message where the paint is starting to show through. There's an old white border that goes all the way around the message and in cursive, the word SEE in the top right corner. Maybe the Sequoyah message changed over the year, or perhaps it used to be a Rock City barn before Sequoyah opened up in the 1960s.
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