Boonecroft

Boonecroft
Boonecroft. August 2013.
Location Oley Line Road near Limekiln, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°38′0″N 75°58′52″W / 40.63333°N 75.98111°WCoordinates: 40°38′0″N 75°58′52″W / 40.63333°N 75.98111°W
Area 25 acres (10 ha)
Built 1720, 1733
Built by Boone, George III
Architectural style Colonial
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference # 82003758[1]
Added to NRHP July 26, 1982

Boonecroft is a historic homestead located at Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It includes the remains of the 1720 log cabin built by Quaker settler George Boone, III. The remains consists of a chimney and fireplace and commemorated by a stone marker erected in 1925. The log cabin burned in 1924. The adjacent stone farmhouse was built in 1733, and is a 2 1/2-story Colonial English style structure. It is built of fieldstone with sandstone quoins, and has a slate covered gable roof. It has a one-story, stone addition. Also on the property are the contributing guesthouse / spring house, smokehouse, and barn. The property is considered the ancestral home of the Boone Family in America, that includes frontiersman Daniel Boone, grandson of George Boone, III.[2] Daniel Boone was born at the nearby Daniel Boone Homestead.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09.
  2. ↑ ""National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania"" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes E. Garrett Brinton (January 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Boonecroft" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-09-15.