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Please Note - Our August 25 speakers' program of the Villages of Hilltown has been cancelled due to Covid issues. We hope to present this in 2022.
A visit to the Strassburger Farmstead is like a trip back in time. Our bank barn looks much like it did in the mid-19th century. The homestead building is furnished much like the way Rueben and Elizabeth Strassburger would have, while the tenant building has been converted into a museum showing what rural life was like in Hilltown back in the day. All are open to the public during open house events, or by advance notice.
The Strassburger Homestead has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018
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Our 1830 PA Bank barn (left and above) has gone through some changes over the years. Can you spot them? Pictured above are Paul and Henry Yoder, pausing for the photo op, around 1910. The animals are also happy for the break. Paul (PFY) carved his intitals in the barn wall in 1915. Can you find them? Can you spot the differences in the barn in the last century?
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