Mill Tract Farm

Mill Tract Farm

Mill Tract Farm, September 1958 (HABS Photo)
Location Northeast of Stonersville on Mill Road, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°19′30″N 75°47′26″W / 40.32500°N 75.79056°W / 40.32500; -75.79056Coordinates: 40°19′30″N 75°47′26″W / 40.32500°N 75.79056°W / 40.32500; -75.79056
Area 0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built c. 1728, c. 1750, 1790-1820
Built by Boone, George
Architectural style Georgian
NRHP Reference # 77001124[1]
Added to NRHP September 22, 1977

Mill Tract Farm, also known as the George Boone Homestead, is a historic house and farm complex located in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The original section of the house was built about 1750, with a western addition built about 1790 and rear additions completed between 1790 and 1820. It is a two-story, five-bay, L-shaped fieldstone dwelling in the Georgian style. Also on the property are a  2 1⁄2-story, stone grist mill (c. 1728); early-19th-century,  2 1⁄2-story, fieldstone tenant house; large, late-18th-century stone-and-frame barn; stone pig pen; and two-story, stone horse barn. The grist mill was purportedly built by George Boone, III, grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone, who received the original land grant.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

  1. ↑ 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 K. Watson and Drury B. Alexander (February 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mill Tract Farm" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-08-22.


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