Quiet Valley Farm

Quiet Valley Farm
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Southwest of Stroudsburg off U.S. Route 209, Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°57′25″N75°15′03″W / 40.95694°N 75.25083°W / 40.95694; -75.25083
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]

History and notable features

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]

References

1. "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 William Watson (October 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Quiet Valley Farm" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm - official website