Quiet Valley Farm

Quiet Valley Farm
Quiet Valley Farm is located in Pennsylvania
Quiet Valley Farm
Location within Pennsylvania
Quiet Valley Farm is located in the United States
Quiet Valley Farm
Location within the United States
LocationSouthwest of Stroudsburg off U.S. Route 209, Hamilton Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°57′25″N 75°15′03″W / 40.95694°N 75.25083°W / 40.95694; -75.25083
Area72 acres (29 ha)
Built1765
Architectural styleBank Barn Style
NRHP reference No.73001642[1]
Added to NRHPApril 23, 1973

The Quiet Valley Farm is an historic working farm in Hamilton Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It 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.[1]

History and notable features

The farm is a national historic district located in Hamilton Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. 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 (1850), the frame wash house, a fruit drying house, a smoke house, an ice house, a storage shed, and a wagon shed.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ William Watson (October 1972). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania SP Quiet Valley Farm. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 29, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)
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