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

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located in Lower Chanceford Township in

York County, Pennsylvania York County ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Yarrick Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 456,438. Its county seat is York. The county was created on August 19, 1749, from part of Lancaster ...

. It was listed on the

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in 2000.

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),

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(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

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. It measures forty feet wide and thirty feet deep, and has a

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-covered gable roof. The sites are the stone foundation of a scale house (c. 1875) and the ruins of a small dwelling (c. 1900). ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the

in 2000.

References

{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in York County, Pennsylvania Houses in York County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in York County, Pennsylvania Lower Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania