Elm Spring Farm | |
Elm Spring Farm fields, December 2011 | |
Location | 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Bain Rd. on Goose Creek Rd., northwest of Morgantown, Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana |
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Coordinates | 39°27′22″N86°28′13″W / 39.45611°N 86.47028°W Coordinates: 39°27′22″N86°28′13″W / 39.45611°N 86.47028°W |
Area | 50 acres (20 ha) |
Built | c. 1844 |
Built by | Civilian Conservation Corps |
Architectural style | Log |
NRHP reference No. | 01000981 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 16, 2001 |
Elm Spring Farm is a historic home and farm located in Jefferson Township, Morgan County, Indiana. The farmhouse was built about 1844, and is a 1 1/2-story, single pen log dwelling with a frame kitchen addition. Also on the property are the contributing single corn crib converted to a garage, second single corn crib, privy, brick outdoor fireplace, spring, and sandstone abutments for two absent foot bridges. The building represents an assemblage of pioneer log buildings. During the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps was hired to reforest the farm. The property has also been used as a Girl Scout camp. [2] :5, 10
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]
The James Elliott Farm is a historic farmstead located on the edge of the town of New Harmony in Posey County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The farm is composed of the farmhouse and seven outbuildings, including corn cribs, a barn, a shed, a silo, and a milkhouse. The farm centers around the farmhouse, which was built in the Greek Revival style in 1826 by English immigrant James Elliott; even before Elliott joined the commune, the property had been associated with the followers of Robert Owen; the land had previously supported an offshoot of the main community, which its residents called "Feiba Peveli." Elliott had settled in the vicinity as part of the Owenist commune that lived at New Harmony at that time; besides farming, Elliott established himself as the community's brewer.
Fred and Minnie Raber Farm, also known as the Raber-Hasselbring-Shaffer Farm and Raber-Robbins Farm, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located in Deer Creek Township, Carroll County, Indiana. The house was built in 1904–1905, and is a large 2 1/2-story, brick veneer frame dwelling with elements of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival style design. It has a steeply pitched hip roof, one-story verandah, and paired Tuscan order columns. Also on the property are the contributing gazebo, garage, chicken house, corn crib, scales site, iron fence, and barn.
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A.A. Parsons Farmstead, also known as the Parsons / Vapor Farmstead, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Washington Township, Hendricks County, Indiana. The district encompasses eight contributing buildings, four contributing structures, and seven contributing objects on a farmstead developed between about 1880 and 1920. The farm includes a one-of-a-kind combination building with a hog barn, chicken house, and corn cribs. The farmhouse was built about 1875 and is a 1 1⁄2-story, "L"-shaped frame dwelling.
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