Although roof styles vary, the barn type used almost exclusively in the
Piney Woods is the transverse-crib barn. Henry Glassie, folk historian,
has theorized that the transverse-crib barn developed in the southern
Tennessee Valley. The Piney Woods settlers came from that area in large
numbers. Roof styles include the gambrel and the pitched roof, but the
most prevalent style is the A-roof (Figs. 30-32).