Boonecroft

Boonecroft
Boonecroft. August 2013.
Location Oley Line Road near Limekiln, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°19′56″N 75°48′10″W / 40.33222°N 75.80278°W / 40.33222; -75.80278Coordinates: 40°19′56″N 75°48′10″W / 40.33222°N 75.80278°W / 40.33222; -75.80278
Area 25 acres (10 ha)
Built 1720, 1733
Built by Boone, George III
Architectural style Colonial
NRHP reference # 82003758[1]
Added to NRHP July 26, 1982

Boonecroft is a historic homestead in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It includes the remains of the log cabin built in 1720 by Quaker settler George Boone III. The remains consist of a chimney and fireplace and are 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 2½-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, which 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 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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.


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