The Liberty Bell Trail is a suburban rail trail under construction in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Hopewell is a set of historic homes and farm complexes located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It consists of four related groupings of 19th century farm buildings. The Hopewell complex consists of two historic farms: Hopewell and the smaller F.R. Shriner Farm.
The Liberty Bell Museum is a non-profit organization and museum located in Zion's United Church of Christ in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The museum is based in the church in which the Liberty Bell, an iconic and globally-recognized symbol of America's independence, was hidden from the British Army by Allentown-area American patriots during the American Revolutionary War from September 1777 to June 1778.
The buildings and architecture of Allentown, Pennsylvania reflect the city's history and settlement from its original settlement in the 1700s through the present. Allentown is characterized by its abundant historic homes, churches, commercial structures and century-old industrial buildings. Some of its homes and building structures rank among the nation's oldest.
High German Evangelical Reformed Church, also known as Zion Reformed and Zion United Church of Christ, is a historic Evangelical and Reformed church at 622 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
Spangler–Benner Farm is a historic farm and national historic district located at Mount Joy Township in Adams County, Pennsylvania. The district includes nine contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The contributing buildings are the sided log farmhouse (1870), frame bank barn (1864), log summer kitchen (1802), smoke house, spring house, wagon sheds, tools sheds, and machine shops. Contributing structures are a wooden silo and metal windmill, erected in 1900. The farm has been in continuous ownership by the same family since 1802.
Henry and Elizabeth Berkheimer Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It includes the farmhouse (1817), Sweitzer barn (1847), summer kitchen, and wagon shed. Also on the property are a woodshed, hog barn, poultry house, and seed house, all built about 1920; a metal windmill dated to 1909; and the site of an early 19th-century woolen mill and millrace. The farmhouse is a banked 2 1/2-story Pennsylvania German vernacular dwelling built of rough cut brownstone. It measures 48 feet wide by 23 feet deep.
Stover–Winger Farm, also known as Tayamentasachta, is a historic farm complex located at Antrim Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in the 1840s or 1850s, and is a two-story, four-bay, "T"-shaped, brick dwelling. It has a two-story, three-bay brick cased log wing. It has a one-story, shed-roofed porch along three sides. Also on the property are a contributing brick beehive oven, brick end bank barn built in 1849 and rebuilt in 1876 after a fire, frame wagon shed, and metal "Stover Wind Engine". The farm was purchased by the Greencastle-Antrim School District in 1966. The property includes the spring named Tayamentasachta, a favorite camp site for the Delaware Indians.
Rock Hill Farm, also known as the Davis-Stauffer Farm Complex, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located at Montgomery Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures. They are associated with three areas: the Davis-Chamber farmstead, Eliab Negley House, and Joseph Negley farmstead. Contributing components of the Davis-Chamber farmstead include the log and frame main house, 18th century log smokehouse, limestone milk house, frame wash house, frame outhouse, frame wagon shed, and a frame barn with concrete sile. The property also includes a stone wall, and the archaeological remains of earlier buildings including a limestone mill dismantled about 1930. The Eliab Negley House is a log dwelling built between 1810 and 1823. The Joseph Negley farmstead includes a Greek Revival-style dwelling built between 1836 and 1850, with later modifications about 1900. Also on the property are a contributing 19th century smokehouse, a frame wagon shed, and a large shed.
Brendle Farms, also known as the Alexander Schaeffer Farm and Sheetz Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Schaefferstown in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1750, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Swiss bank house with a large arched wine cellar and distillery. Also on the property are a contributing bank barn, stone pigsty, limestone smokehouse, wheat barn, and wagon shed and corn crib. A second 2+1⁄2-story dwelling is located on the Lower Farm, along with a Swiss bank barn. The house is part of the Historic Schaefferstown museum.
Knurr Log House is a historic home located at Delphi in Lower Frederick Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The log house was built about 1750, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, Germanic log dwelling. It has a gable roof and traditional three room first floor plan. Also on the property are a 19th-century bank barn, two chicken houses, a corn crib, and tool and wood shed.
Knorr–Bare Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has 13 contributing buildings and 8 contributing structures. They include a 2 1/2-story, four bay, brick farmhouse (1906); frame Pennsylvania bank barn (1896); and 1 1/2-story stone cabin. The remaining buildings were mostly built between about 1896 and 1940, with two tenant houses dated to the late-18th century and mid-19th century. Other buildings include a milk house, smoke house / bake house, privy, four wagon sheds, and a hay barn. The contributing structures include a lime kiln, silo, and a variety of animal shelters.
John Gehman Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Hereford Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has seven contributing buildings. They are the 2+1⁄2-story, stone and log Swiss bank house ; stone Pennsylvania bank barn (1806); 2+1⁄2-story, vernacular stone farmhouse, stable, wagon shed, and privy. The Gehman family owned the farm from about 1767 to 1945. They were of German ancestry, originating in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany.
Stupp–Oxenrider Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in North Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It has nine contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures. They include a 2+1⁄2-story, log Swiss bank house ; 2-story, log, tenant / grandfather's house ; and frame Pennsylvania bank barn. The remaining buildings include a stone summer kitchen / butcher house, smokehouse, blacksmith's shop, wagon shed, milk house, and privy. The contributing structures are a chicken house, brooder house, pole shed, and roofed spring. The contributing site is a limestone quarry.
The Christian Schlegel Farm is a historic farm complex and national historic district located in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Peter Taylor Farmstead, also known as Shull Farm, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Newtown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses two contributing buildings; the farmhouse and barn. The main section of the two-story, fieldstone farmhouse was built about 1750. Additions or modifications were made about 1800, 1842, about 1860, and about 1940. The modifications done about 1800 rebuilt the original cabin dated to 1715. The two and three-story, frame over stone bank barn was built about 1750 and expanded about 1860.
Leaser Lake is a man-made lake located near the village of Jacksonville in Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. The lake is owned by the Commonwealth and managed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC).
Frederick Leaser (1738–1810) was a Pennsylvanian German farmer, patriot and soldier from Lynn Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. He is best known for transporting the Liberty Bell to the Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War.
Jacksonville is an unincorporated community in Lynn Township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. After land had been given for a church and churchyard, the first house was built in 1820. The village was named after President Andrew Jackson in 1845. It is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and was the 68th most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. as of the 2020 census.
John Jacob Mickley (1737–1808) was a farmer and soldier from Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania known for transporting the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia in September, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.
