Quiet Valley Farm

Quiet Valley Farm is a 72-acre homestead in the Pocono foothills near Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Johan Peter Zepper, also recorded as Topper, bought the tract in 1765, and he and his wife had emigrated from the Palatinate to settle land much like what they had left in Europe. The main house began as a square log building on a stone basement, with a small cave-like kitchen and an earthen cold room. Early in the 19th century a second story was added, and in 1892 an 18 by 11 foot frame kitchen wing and porch were built. The house has no electricity or plumbing and keeps most of its 19th-century furnishings. The present bank barn dates from 1850 and measures 46 by 47 feet, with a forebay and 19th-century farm implements still inside. The farm is significant as a nearly complete collection of 18th and 19th century farm buildings and implements, and as a record of the self-sufficient farm life of the extended family, which the document describes as now largely gone. The property is operated today as a functioning museum.