{"nrhp_refnum":"00001344","name":"McCalls Ferry Farm","other_names":["McCall, Robert and Matthew, Farm","Atkins--Trout Farm"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"447 McCalls Ferry Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lower Chanceford Township","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.82651429400005,"lon":-76.35506626539555,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-11-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"McCalls Ferry Farm is a 300-acre dairy farm in Lower Chanceford Township, southeastern York County, Pennsylvania, on the southwest side of the Susquehanna River. Its farmstead includes a c. 1799 Pennsylvania German vernacular farmhouse and several historic barns, with a historic ferry site nearby.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is a strong representative example of a typical York County farm operating through the 19th and early 20th centuries, and that it was one of the largest dairy operations in the area from 1907 to 1946. Its farmhouse and barns are cited as among the oldest in the township, and the farmhouse is described as one of the first in the county built in the Pennsylvania German vernacular farmhouse design.","narrative":"Located on the southwest side of the Susquehanna River in Lower Chanceford Township, this 300-acre dairy farm grew from a late-eighteenth-century settlement near the McCall family's ferry crossing. The banked farmhouse, dating to about 1799, is built of stone with stucco and slate roofs, and its two-story rear ell was built at the same time. The Sweitzer barn, also from about 1799, rests on a 60-by-60-foot stone foundation and has a heavy timber frame and a long forebay. Under the Trout family, from 1907 onward, the farm became one of the largest dairy operations in the area and raised Guernsey cattle and tobacco. The farm's buildings and ferry-related sites reflect the region's Pennsylvania German and Scots-Irish agricultural traditions across more than a century of operation.","period_of_significance":"C. 1799-1950","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania German vernacular","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The Kilgore family has operated a dairy business at the farm for four generations; the nomination describes a medium-sized dairy operation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.985349-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/00001344.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001344/05f879be05-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001344/05f879be05-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCALLS_FERRY_FARM;_LOWER_CHANCEFORD_TWP,_YORK_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ, M.D.</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCALLS_FERRY_FARM;_LOWER_CHANCEFORD_TWP,_YORK_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996319","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCalls_Ferry_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6800113"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/mccalls-ferry-farm-00001344/"}