The Quiet Valley Farm is an historic, American working farm that is operated as an open-air museum. Open seasonally, costumed interpreters operate the farm and explain family life from the 1760s to 1913.
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| Location | Southwest of Stroudsburg off U.S. Route 209, Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 40°57′25″N 75°15′03″W / 40.95694°N 75.25083°W |
| Area | 72 acres (29 ha) |
| Built | 1765 |
| Architectural style | Bank Barn Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 73001642[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 23, 1973 |
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
History and notable features
editThe farm is a national historic district located in Hamilton Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It includes nine contributing buildings that were located on a homestead that was purchased by Johan Peter Zepper (Topper) in 1765. It remained in the Zepper family until 1958, and is now operated as a nineteenth-century, living history farm known as the Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm.
Contributing buildings are the main house (c. 1765), the springhouse (c. 1765), a bank barn (1850), the frame wash house, a fruit drying house, a smoke house, an ice house, a storage shed, and a wagon shed.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes William Watson (October 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quiet Valley Farm" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
External links
edit- Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm - official website