Michael and Magdealena Bixler Farmstead
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Location: | 400 Mundis Race Rd., East Manchester Township, Pennsylvania |
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Area: | 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) |
Architectural style: | Georgian, Other, Sweitzer barn |
Governing body: | Local |
NRHP Reference#: | 00000850[1] |
Added to NRHP: | July 27, 2000 |
Michael and Magdealena Bixler Farmstead, also known as John Rudy County Park, is a historic property located at East Manchester Township, Pennsylvania, York County, Pennsylvania. It includes seven stone and frame buildings dating from about 1799 to about 1910. They are a Georgian-style house, Sweitzer barn (1811), a summer kitchen, corn barn, hog barn, tobacco barn, and milk house. The house was built about 1799, and is a 2 1/2-story, stone dwelling on a limestone foundation. It has a slate covered gable roof. Also on the property is a hand-dug well dating to about 1799 or earlier, the foundations of a house dated to about 1737, and a smokehouse. The property was donated to York County in 1973, and is operated as a county park.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.[1]
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