Shreiner Farm

Along the north side of Oregon Pike in Manheim Township, Lancaster County, a working farmstead built largely in the early 1800s includes a two-and-a-half-story fieldstone farmhouse dated circa 1830, a fieldstone bank barn with a datestone reading 1828, a summer kitchen with a walk-in fireplace, a frame tobacco barn from around 1900, and three early twentieth-century frame sheds. The land was granted by William Penn to Hans Adam Schryner in 1743 and remained in the Shreiner family for generations. Henry Shreiner, born in 1804, farmed the property from 1827 to 1859 and later served for 43 years as a justice of the peace. The farm is regarded as a well-preserved example of typical early nineteenth-century Lancaster County farm construction. Its buildings still stand in an active farming setting of rotating corn, soy and produce fields, even as surrounding land has developed for housing. Its farmhouse and barn retain much of their original form and materials.