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John Eakin Farm

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Architectural style
  
Other, Penn Plan

Area
  
43 ha

Added to NRHP
  
24 February 2005

NRHP Reference #
  
05000100

Year built
  
1739

John Eakin Farm

Location
  
3298 PA 212, Main St., Springtown, Springfield Township, Pennsylvania

John Eakin Farm, also known as Jacob Kooker Tavern, is a historic farm and national historic district located at Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure. They are three houses, two barns, one wagon shed, two smokehouses, one spring house, one outhouse, one garage, one milk house, one chicken house, and the ruins of an out kitchen, lime quarry, lime kiln and two sheds. The most notable building is the Jacob Kooker Tavern, the oldest section of which dates to 1739. A tavern occupied the building from 1761 to about 1797.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

References

John Eakin Farm Wikipedia