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Sehner-Ellicott-Von Hess House is a historic home located at 123 N. Prince Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1780 by George Sehner, and is a finely restored house built in the Georgian style of architecture. It was occupied by Andrew Ellicott (1754–1820), first United States Surveyor General, from 1801 to 1813. [2]
Location of Chester County in Pennsylvania Map of Chester County (clickable). This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania.
John and Andrew Ellicott moved to Baltimore County, Maryland in May 1771 purchasing 50 acres of Baltimore County land from Emanuel Teal and 35 acres from William Williams. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] John, Andrew, and Joseph Ellicott founded Ellicott's Mills which became one of the largest milling and manufacturing towns in the East.
The Ellicott brothers helped revolutionize farming in the area by persuading farmers to plant wheat instead of tobacco and also by introducing fertilizer to revitalize depleted soil. [4] Charles Carroll , a signer of the Declaration of Independence , was an early influential convert from tobacco to wheat. [ 5 ]
Rock Ford was saved from destruction by the Junior League in 1958; the house was renovated and restored to become an historic house museum. Rock Ford Foundation was established as a nonprofit to operate the museum. Today, visitors may come to Historic Rock Ford for guided tours to learn what it was like to live on the property between 1794 and ...
A petition from the citizens of Cogan House Township for a bridge to be built was filed on September 4, 1876. [5] The 90-foot-long (27 m) Burr arch truss bridge was built in 1877 and rehabilitated in 1998, [6] and is on the National Register of Historic Places. [7] Larrys Creek was vitally important to the economic development of Cogan House ...
The house is in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, with Chateauesque elements. It is five-bays wide and has a wraparound porch and porte cochere. The front facade features rounded arched windows with wide cut stone arches. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Chichester Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 611 Meetinghouse Road near Boothwyn, in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. This area, near Chester, was one of the earliest areas settled by Quakers in Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse, first built in 1688, then rebuilt after a fire in 1769, reflects this ...