Strickler Family Farmhouse
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Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania
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| Location | 1205 Williams Rd., Springettsbury Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | 39°59′16″N 76°39′33″W / 39.98778°N 76.65917°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | c. 1740, c. 1835, c. 1865 |
| Architectural style | Colonial, Georgian, Post-medieval German |
| NRHP reference No. | 91000093[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 21, 1991 |
The Strickler Family Farmhouse, also known as the County Farm, is an historic home that is located in Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]
The farmhouse consists of three sections: a 1+1⁄2-story, two-bay by one-bay, Germanic-influenced, limestone main house, a 2+1⁄2-story, brick Georgian-style wing that was built circa 1835, and a two-story brick ell that was built circa 1865.
Also located on the property is the Strickler family cemetery, with burials that date back to the 1700s.[2]
History
Ulrich and Mary Strickler immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1737 and purchased two hundred acres of farmland west of the Susquehanna River from the Penn family. Samuel Strickler was born in the stone house in 1875.
The family sold the farm during the early twentieth century; it was the subsequently sold in 1943 to York County and used for a prison site. For a few years, the federal immigration service used the house for office space, before it went unused.[3][4] Three generations of family members visited the house in July 2020 after learning of its ancestral link.[5]
