John Gehman Farm is a historic farm complex and national

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located in Hereford Township,

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. It has seven contributing buildings. They are the -story, stone and log Swiss bank house (c. 1767); stone Pennsylvania

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(1806); -story, vernacular stone farmhouse (c. 1810), stable, wagon shed, and

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. The Gehman family owned the farm from about 1767 to 1945. They were of

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ancestry, originating in the

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region of Germany. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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