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A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]
These transactions are described in the land records as being located at or near the Old farm, Judson's farm's or Lt. Joseph Judson farm. In 1699, Lt. Ebenezer Curtiss recorded 15 acres (0.061 km 2) of land from the three-mile division that was bounded west with Lt. Joseph Judson's farm, now belonging to Abraham Nichols. This deed confirms that ...
Arden is a historic estate outside Harriman, New York, the 450-acre (0.70 sq mi; 1.8 km 2) remains of a much larger property originally assembled by railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. By the early 1900s, Harriman owned 40,000 acres (63 sq mi; 160 km 2 ) in the area, half of it comprising the Arden Estate.
The Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC) is a United States Department of Agriculture laboratory center in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. The Center researches new industrial and food uses for agricultural commodities, develops new technology to improve environmental quality, and provides technical support to federal regulatory and action agencies.
The Eastern Lancaster County School District ("Elanco") is a school district in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It serves the townships of Brecknock, (Chase x Bethany)Caernarvon, Earl, and East Earl, as well as the boroughs of New Holland and Terre Hill. The school district is a member of Lancaster–Lebanon Intermediate Unit (IU) 13.
Bartram's Garden is the oldest botanic garden to survive in the United States. [3] John Bartram (1699–1777), well-known in colonial American as a botanist, explorer, and plant collector, established the garden in September 1728 after purchasing a 102-acre (0.41 km 2) farm in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County for personal use. [21] [22]
This property has fourteen contributing buildings, one contributing site, and five contributing structures. They include the main house, a cistern (c. 1870), a tool shed (c. 1850), an privy (c. 1840), a spring and milk house (c. 1836), a carriage house (c. 1840, 1887), a small barn (c. 1845), a corn crib (c. 1845), a bank barn (c. 1750), a stone lean-to (c. 1711, 1745), the ruins of a stone ...
Tranquility Farm is a historic summer estate located on Tranquility Road in Middlebury, Connecticut. The estate was developed in the 1890s by industrialist John H. Whittemore, with architectural design by the noted firm of McKim, Mead & White, and landscape design by Charles Eliot and Warren H. Manning. The main house was a rare inland example ...