McCalls Ferry Farm

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McCalls Ferry Farm
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Location447 McCalls Ferry Rd.,
Lower Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 39°49′30″N76°21′22″W / 39.82500°N 76.35611°W / 39.82500; -76.35611
Area300 acres (120 ha)
Architectural stylePennsylvania German
NRHP reference No. 00001344 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 8, 2000

The McCalls Ferry Farm, also known as the Robert and Matthew McCall Farm, Atkins-Trout Farm, and Kilgore Farm, is an historic, American farm and national historic district located in Lower Chanceford Township in York County, Pennsylvania.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

History and architectural features

This district includes six contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The buildings are the farmhouse (c. 1790), Sweitzer barn (c. 1799), frame corn barn (c. 1799), tobacco barn (c. 1875), milk house (c. 1910), and chicken house (c. 1950). The farmhouse is a banked, Pennsylvania German, vernacular dwelling built of stone and coated in stucco. It measures forty feet wide and thirty feet deep, and has a slate-covered gable roof. The sites are the stone foundation of a scale house (c. 1875) and the ruins of a small dwelling (c. 1900). [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System.Note: This includes B. Raid (February 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: McCalls Ferry Farm" (PDF). Retrieved December 21, 2011.