{"nrhp_refnum":"93000719","name":"Okehocking Historic District","other_names":["Okehocking Indian Land Grant Historic District"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by West Chester Pike, Plumsock Rd., Goshen Rd. and Garrett Mill Rd., Willistown Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Media","county":"Chester County","state":"PA","lat":39.98092503250004,"lon":-75.4903308160408,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1993-08-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural historic district of 18th and early 19th century farmhouses, farm outbuildings, a Quaker meeting house and burying ground, a one-room school, a former inn, mills and mill sites, centred on the 1703 Okehocking Indian Land Grant in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, about six miles east of West Chester.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is locally significant for how its architecture and farmland record settlement and growth from 1700 to 1940. Its stone farmhouses and outbuildings are described as a well-preserved collection of Pennsylvania farm buildings in a traditional rural setting, much of it under conservation easement. The land's history as an Indian grant, its Quaker settler families, and the early twentieth-century gentleman farm estates are also presented as central to its importance.","narrative":"Rural district of 18th and early 19th century stone farmhouses, barns and mill sites in Willistown Township, Chester County, about six miles east of West Chester. It is centred on a 500-acre tract granted in 1703 to members of the Okehocking Lenape, who were not long in residence before the land reverted to the Proprietary in the 1720s. Quaker families including the Yarnalls, Smedleys and Garretts then farmed and milled the land, building houses with local stone, a meeting house completed by 1798, and a school. A former inn, the Rising Sun, operated from 1766 until about 1820. In 1913 Dr. Thomas Ashton assembled a 1400-acre estate called Delchester Farm, and other wealthy owners followed in the 1920s. The buildings and open farmland are regarded as a well-preserved record of how the area was settled, farmed and kept open over more than two centuries.","period_of_significance":"1700-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania Colonial; Early Republican; Victorian; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Most contributing buildings are in good condition; four are vacant, including the surviving mill and two barns.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.246944-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93000719.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000719/5425277b81-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/93000719/5425277b81-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okehocking_HD_Chesco_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Okehocking_HD_Chesco_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998771","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okehocking_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7081918"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/chester-county/okehocking-historic-district-93000719/"}