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.
History and notable features
The farm is a national
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
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
A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn noted for its accessibility, at ground level, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill, or bank, both the upper and the lower floors area could be accessed from ground level, one are ...
(1850), the frame wash house, a fruit drying house, a
smoke house
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke. The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. , an ice house, a storage shed, and a wagon shed.
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It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
References
External links
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm- official website
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Open-air museums in Pennsylvania
Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Houses in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Museums in Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Farm museums in Pennsylvania
History of Monroe County, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania