The Pioneer Barn takes its name from its design rather than its age. The 48-foot by 36-foot barn houses the Eash and Yoder Conestoga Wagon and related artifacts of the pioneer era. Built in an 1840-era Pennsylvania, or German, barn style, it is banked for ground-level access to the threshing floor, and a forebay overhang protects the lower-level stable entrances. Its standard timber-frame construction uses mortise-and-tenon joints, with beams of sawn native red and white oak and several hand-hewn timbers salvaged from a local barn built in the 1850s. The interior siding is native poplar, the exterior siding is hemlock from north-central Pennsylvania, and in a concession to technology the barn is insulated with 1 1/2-inch foam board. Its rail fence came from local locust trees and was split by hand. Built in a traditional barn raising in 2002, the structure was raised during a one-day community work frolic after a construction supervisor and crew had laid out the timbers and cut the joints in advance, and most of the timber and structural materials were donated by the community. The Conestoga Wagon it houses was one of two wagons bought by Somerset County, Pennsylvania, around 1835 and operated by the Eash family as a freight service helping neighbors move west. Later, settlers in Ohio used the Eash wagons to continue on to Indiana, Michigan, and perhaps farther west, but the wagons eventually returned to southwestern Pennsylvania. In 1930, this wagon was sold at auction to a farm neighbor, Levi Yoder, then passed to his son Morgan Yoder and after his death to his four children. It remained within the two Somerset County families for 150 years, deteriorating while stored in a haymow until descendants of the Eash and Yoder families and others formed a nonprofit corporation to receive the wagon and finance its restoration. The wagon is on loan to the church from Eash and Yoder Cones Heritage Inc.