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The Stover–Winger Farm, also known as Tayamentasachta, is an historic, American farm complex that is located in Antrim Township in
Franklin County, Pennsylvania Franklin County is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 155,932. Its county seat is Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Cha ...
. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1979.


History and architectural features

The house was built in the 1840s or 1850s, and is a two-story, four-bay, T-shaped, brick dwelling. It has a two-story, three-bay, brick-cased, log wing and a one-story, shed-roofed porch that wraps around three sides of the building. Also located on the property are a contributing brick beehive oven, a brick end
bank barn A bank barn or banked barn is a style of barn which is accessible from the ground, on two separate levels. Often built into the side of a hill or bank, the upper and the lower floors could both be accessed from the ground, one area at the top of ...
that was built in 1849 and rebuilt in 1876 after a fire, a frame wagon shed, and a metal " Stover Wind Engine". The farm was purchased by the Greencastle-Antrim School District in 1966. The property includes the spring named Tayamentasachta, a favorite camp site for the
Delaware Indians The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. The Lenape's historical territory included present-day northeastern Del ...
. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1979.


Gallery

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stover-Winger Farm Farms on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures completed in 1876 Houses in Franklin County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Pennsylvania