{"nrhp_refnum":"79002233","name":"Millmont Farm","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Mercersburg at jct. of PA 16 and PA 416","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mercersburg","county":"Franklin County","state":"PA","lat":39.804420220000054,"lon":-77.87293033309867,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-04-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Millmont Farm is a farmstead about two miles southeast of Mercersburg in Montgomery Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, along the west branch of the Conococheague Creek and Pennsylvania Route 16. The complex includes a stone main house, a double log house, a stone and frame secondary dwelling, a frame bank barn and the site of a grist mill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is significant for its contribution to county economic history as a mill site and for its association with prominent people in national, state and local history, including the Ramsey and Harrison families. It also cites the main house as an excellent example of regional architecture, with Federal-inspired detail and precise masonry typical of the early 19th century.","narrative":"Millmont Farm lies about two miles southeast of Mercersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, beside the west branch of the Conococheague Creek and Pennsylvania Route 16. Its centerpiece is a two-story, five-bay stone house built sometime between 1798 and 1821, with prominent keystones over the first-story windows, a semicircular fanlight above the entrance and a stone wing to the rear. The farmstead also includes a double log house, a stone secondary dwelling, a frame bank barn and the site of a stone grist and sawmill, which was documented as early as 1798. The Ramsey family, whose descendants included Jane Irwin Harrison, mistress of the White House, and Benjamin Harrison, the President, shaped the property's regional prominence. The farm's masonry and early Federal-era detailing are considered uncommon for the Cumberland Valley, and the complex remains a rare survivor of its milling and farming history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1798-1821","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Federal-inspired detail combined with a basic rural Georgian exterior plan","criteria":[],"status_note":"The farmstead is in excellent condition and the property is still being used for agricultural purposes.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:30.212246-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/79002233.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002233/a02d948295-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002233/a02d948295-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milmont_Farm_FrankCo_PA_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milmont_Farm_FrankCo_PA_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996502","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millmont_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6859889"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/franklin-county/millmont-farm-79002233/"}