Mill Tract Farm

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]

Mill Tract Farm
Mill Tract Farm, September 1958 (HABS Photo)
LocationNortheast of Stonersville on Mill Road, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°19′30″N 75°47′26″W
Area127 acres (51 ha)
Builtc. 1728, c. 1750, 1790-1820
Built byBoone, George
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No.77001124[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 22, 1977

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

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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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