McCalls Ferry Farm

Located on the southwest side of the Susquehanna River in Lower Chanceford Township, this 300-acre dairy farm grew from a late-eighteenth-century settlement near the McCall family's ferry crossing. The banked farmhouse, dating to about 1799, is built of stone with stucco and slate roofs, and its two-story rear ell was built at the same time. The Sweitzer barn, also from about 1799, rests on a 60-by-60-foot stone foundation and has a heavy timber frame and a long forebay. Under the Trout family, from 1907 onward, the farm became one of the largest dairy operations in the area and raised Guernsey cattle and tobacco. The farm's buildings and ferry-related sites reflect the region's Pennsylvania German and Scots-Irish agricultural traditions across more than a century of operation.