...or you'll miss Barons completely. Though it's immediately east of the highway, it can flash by in the blink of an eye. But then, the same could be said of most of the towns out here. There's only one entrance to the hamlet from the highway and that is where they wisely chose to place their "Welcome" sign.
Cool Factoid:
Barons was a filming location for a scene in the 1978 film "Superman".
Initially a CPR land grant from the federal government, the community began with the selling of lots by the CPR in 1909 and Barons became a village on May 6, 1910. It never got any bigger than a village and today has been reduced to
hamlet status.
Wiki indicates that "
The last two grain elevators were demolished in the summer of 2012.", but I was in Barons this year (2014) and can assure you that one still stands. Given that Barons had grain elevators, one may easily guess that it was a farm service and supply town all its life. As a rule, wherever the grain companies plunked down an elevator, a town quickly grew. And ofttimes the town even came first.