Evansburg Historic District

Evansburg is a district of stone farmhouses, inns, a church, a mill and a bridge strung along Germantown Pike and Skippack Creek in central Montgomery County. Most of its houses are plastered fieldstone buildings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with end chimneys and a typical regional plan. The Glebe House, part of which dates before 1737, served as a rectory for St. James Church and hosted a war council of Washington's troops on September 20, 1777. The 1792 Skippack Bridge, an eight-arch stone span thirty-three feet wide, is regarded as the oldest bridge of its size in continuous heavy service in America. Religious history is central to the district: St. James Church dates to 1721, and the Funkite Cemetery holds the graves of Mennonites excommunicated for supporting the Revolution. The district is listed for its architecture, its transportation role, and its links to the colonial era.