Miller, William, Farm Historic District (Boundary Increase)

This farm district in Low Hampton, Washington County, New York, covers about 25 acres that once belonged to a 146-acre parcel assembled by William Miller in 1814. It includes his two-story frame house, completed in 1815 and later updated by his son with a Greek Revival doorway and end flues. A complex of seven farm buildings and structures, a limestone quarry and kiln, a maple grove, stone and wire fences, and traces of an orchard record farm life across several generations. Miller also built the chapel here in 1848, and the limestone outcrop called Ascension Rock is where he and his followers waited for the expected end of the world in 1844. The district was recognized as the property most closely tied to Miller, a Baptist preacher shaped by the revival movements of upstate New York. It adds the farm to the chapel and Ascension Rock, which were listed earlier, in 1975. His boyhood home and family cemetery lie nearby but are outside the boundary.