{"nrhp_refnum":"94000397","name":"Muddy Creek Forks Historic District","other_names":["Village of Muddy Creek Forks"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Muddy Creek Forks and New Park Rds., E. Hopewell, Fawn and Long Chanceford Townships","address_restricted":false,"city":"Muddy Creek Forks","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.807760666000064,"lon":-76.47466227012134,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-04-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Industry","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district comprising the village of Muddy Creek Forks at the junction of Lower Chanceford, Fawn and East Hopewell Townships in southern York County, Pennsylvania, containing twelve buildings, five structures and one site built from about 1800 to about 1935.","why_significant":"The village is argued to be significant as a commercial and industrial center for southeastern York County, grown from milling and then expanded through its association with the railroad. Its mills, general store, grain elevator and railroad connections document this development and its later decline.","narrative":"Muddy Creek Forks is a village of about twelve buildings, five structures and one site, built between about 1800 and 1935 along Muddy Creek where the Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad crosses it in southern York County. Its buildings are mostly frame vernacular structures with Late Victorian details such as brackets and porch trim, and include a stone farmhouse dating to about 1800 and a Victorian Gothic house built about 1889 by Alexander Grove. The village grew from milling, beginning with Nicholson's Mill in the mid-1700s. A general store built about 1900 by Grove served as a department store, railroad station and post office. Grove's grist mill, which operated until the early 1970s, is joined by a grain elevator with an eight-bin storage system. The railroad, which reached the village in 1874, brought new markets to local farmers and businesses. Its decline after the 1950s left the village largely idle.","period_of_significance":"C. 1750-1942","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Vernacular Pennsylvania Farmhouse","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Seven of the twelve contributing buildings are still in use; the village is described as standing all but vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.272759-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94000397.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000397/27622f9090-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000397/27622f9090-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muddy_Creek_Forks_HD,_Lower_Chanceford_twp,_York_Co_PA.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:Muddy_Creek_Forks_HD,_Lower_Chanceford_twp,_York_Co_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995339","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muddy_Creek_Forks_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6931654"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/muddy-creek-forks-historic-district-94000397/"}