In May 1994, nearly 40 Vineyarders traveled to a town in the foothills of the White Mountains in New Hampshire to take down a 1905 dairy barn; after five days, the crew packed up the trucks and headed back to West Tisbury. In November of the same year, hundreds of Islanders turned out to help hoist the barn into place.

The annual Barn Raisers Ball commemorates the community coming together in 1994 to help build the Agricultural Hall out of wood salvaged from an old barn in New Hampshire