Quiet Valley Farm

Quiet Valley Farm
Location Southwest of Stroudsburg off U.S. Route 209, Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°57′25″N 75°15′03″W / 40.95694°N 75.25083°W / 40.95694; -75.25083Coordinates: 40°57′25″N 75°15′03″W / 40.95694°N 75.25083°W / 40.95694; -75.25083
Area 72 acres (29 ha)
Built 1765
Architectural style Other, Bank Barn Style
NRHP Reference # 73001642[1]
Added to NRHP April 23, 1973

Quiet Valley Farm is a historic 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.

The farm is a national historic district located at Hamilton Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It includes nine contributing buildings located on a homestead purchased by Johan Peter Zepper (Topper) in 1765. It remained in the Zepper family until 1958, and is now operated as a 19th-century living history farm known as the Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm. Contributing buildings are the main house (c. 1765), springhouse (c. 1765), bank barn (1850), frame wash house, fruit drying house, smoke house, ice house, storage shed, and wagon shed.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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 2012-03-24.


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