Springfield Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 5,035 at the 2010 census.
Middle Smithfield Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 11,495 at the 2000 census. 2008 population estimates by the United States Census Bureau place the population at 14,900.
Blackacre State Nature Preserve is a 271-acre (110 ha) nature preserve and historic homestead in Louisville, Kentucky. The preserve features rolling fields, streams, forests, and a homestead dating back to the 18th century. For visitors, the preserve features several farm animals including horses, goats, and cows, hiking trails, and a visitor's center in the 1844-built Presley Tyler home. Since 1981, it has been used by the Jefferson County Public Schools as the site of a continuing environmental education program. About 10,000 students visit the outdoor classroom each year.
A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building, usually of a single room, constructed over a spring. While the original purpose of a springhouse was to keep the spring water clean by excluding fallen leaves, animals, etc., the enclosing structure was also used for refrigeration before the advent of ice delivery and, later, electric refrigeration. The water of the spring maintains a constant cool temperature inside the spring house throughout the year. Food that would otherwise spoil, such as meat, fruit, or dairy products, could be kept there, safe from animal depredations as well. Springhouses thus often also served as pumphouses, milkhouses, and root cellars.
The Nallin Farm Springhouse and Bank Barn are closely associated with the Nallin Farm House on the grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, US. The barn is a good example of a fieldstone-built bank barn with a byre on the lower level and an earth ramp on the opposite side providing access to a haymow.
Rockland Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. The complex consists of a brick house, the stone foundation of an 18th-century springhouse, as well as a large frame barn and a corn crib, both dating to the late 19th century. The house, built in 1795, retains the Pennsylvania German traditional three-room plan with a central chimney. It is a two-story, three-bay by two-bay brick structure on a stone foundation built into a slope.
Philip Friend House is a c. 1807 historic farm house in North Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania, US. The stone house is forty feet by thirty feet, two-story, five-bay, and gable-roofed. Contributing outbuildings include a barn, springhouse, wash house, and privy.
The Chad House, which was built by John Wyeth Jr. for John Chads, is located in Chadds Ford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The house was built after 1712 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 11, 1971. John Chad's widow, Elizabeth, stayed in the house while it was in the line of fire during the Battle of Brandywine. The city of Chadds Ford relied on the spring ford on the property, and thus the city was named after John Chads.
The Pierce Springhouse and Barn, also known as the Art Barn, is an historic barn and springhouse located in Rock Creek Park, at Tilden Street and Beach Drive, Northwest, Washington, D.C.
Potter–Allison Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located at Potter Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The district includes nine contributing buildings and one contributing site in Centre Hall. The district includes the Potter–Allison House, 19th century wood barn, and a variety of outbuildings including a hog barn, equipment buildings, corn crib, stone slaughterhouse, and a springhouse. Also on the property are the remains of milling and tanning operations. The Georgian-style house was built about 1817, with a Victorian addition dating to the 1850s. It is a 2 1/2-story brick dwelling. The property was originally owned and developed by General James Potter (1729–1789), who built a log cabin and grist mill. The property was acquired by the locally prominent Allison family in 1849.
Samuel Stoner Homestead, also known as Indian Road Farm, Bechtel Farm, and Wiest Dam, is a historic home and farm located at West Manchester Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built in three stages: a 1 1/2-story, Germanic influenced limestone banked house built between 1798 and 1801; a second story was added about 1835; and a 2-story, 3-bay stone addition, built about 1850. It measures 62 feet by 30 feet. Also on the property is a small stone and frame springhouse, a small stone smoke house, and a small frame and stone bank barn, all dating to the mid-19th century.
Collen Brook Farm, also known as Collenbrook, is a historic home and associated buildings located in Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The complex includes three contributing buildings: a farmhouse, a granite spring house, and stone and frame carriage house. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular stone residence with a Georgian plan and consisting of three sections. The oldest section was built around 1700, with additions made in 1774, and 1794. It was the home of noted educator and political leader George Smith (1804–1882).
Brotherton Farm, also known as the Brotherton-McKenzie Farm, is a historic home and farm complex located at Guilford Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, five bay, "L"-shaped limestone dwelling in the Federal style. It has a two-story, four-bay rear ell. Also on the property are the contributing 1 1/2-story stone spring house, frame wash house, and frame bank barn.
Marie Zimmermann Farm is a historic home located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area at Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1910, and is a large 2 1/2-story, fieldstone dwelling with a gambrel roof with large dormers. It has a two-story, stone rear wing with a steep gable roof. At the intersection of the main house and wing is a round two-story tower, giving the house a French Provincial style. The house is set in a farm complex with two large frame barns, a smaller frame house, and associated outbuildings. It was the home of noted artist Marie Zimmermann (1879–1972).
Rhoads-Lorah House and Barn, also known as "Five Springs Farm," is a historic home and barn located in Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, limestone dwelling in the Georgian style. It measures 42 feet by 20 feet. It is attached to an earlier two-story, 17 feet by 17 feet, stone dwelling, making a "T"-shape. The stone barn was also built about 1830, and measures 66 feet by 41 feet. Also on the property are a contributing springhouse, drive-through corn crib, and machinery shed.
Lenhart Farm is a historic house and farm complex located in Lenhartsville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built by about 1830, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, brownstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a stone and frame bank barn (1841), springhouse, carriage house, and a number of farm-related outbuildings.
Isaiah Paxson Farm, also known as Burgess Lea, is a historic farm complex located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The complex consists of a house, double barn, carriage house, springhouse, shed, smoke house, and small barnyard building. All of the buildings are constructed of stone. The house was built in 1785, and has a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay, gable-roofed main section with a 2+1⁄2-story kitchen section and one-story shed addition. It is in the Georgian style.
Springhouse Farm, also known as the Eric Knight Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house is a Georgian style stone farm house built about 1808, with an addition built about 1941. Other contributing buildings and structures are a stone and frame bank barn with carriage house addition, stone spring house, stone root cellar, corn crib, man made pond, outdoor oven, and privy. The property also includes the burial site for Toots, the dog that inspired the story "Lassie Come-Home." Toots died in 1945, and the burial site marker was added about 1970. Its author Eric Knight (1897-1943) resided at Springhouse Farm from 1939 to 1943.
Squire Cheyney Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, one contributing structure, and contributing object. They are the farmhouse, barn, ruins of a granary, remains of an ice house, a spring house (1799), stone retaining wall, and family cemetery. The house was built in four periods, with the oldest dated to about 1797. The oldest section is a 2 1/s-story, three bay, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. The additions were built about 1815, about 1830, and about 1850, making it a seven-bay-wide dwelling. It is "L"-shaped and has a slate gable roof. During the American Revolution, Thomas "Squire" Cheyney [II] informed General George Washington during the Battle of Brandywine that the British were flanking him to the north. He was later appointed to the Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention to ratify the United States Constitution. The site is now a township park known as Squire Cheyney Farm Park.
Strand Millas and Rock Spring is a historic home located near Montchanin, New Castle County, Delaware. The name "Strand Millas" is derived from an industrial town near Belfast, Ireland. The Strand Millas house was built in 1701, and is a 2+1⁄2 story, quarried stone dwelling. It was expanded with one room on each floor during the 1760s. Strand Millas was the home of du Pont heiress Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter after her marriage in 1929.
