Quiet Valley Farm | |
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Location | Southwest of Stroudsburg off U.S. Route 209, Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°57′25″N75°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 |
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.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
The 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]
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