Скачать или смотреть I found a historic 1790 ABANDONED TAVERN in woods of Pennsylvania

I didn’t finish the second episode of “200 Year Dynasty House” video yet.
Need to process and summarize too much information.
Meanwhile, I want to tell you about an interesting abandoned house in Evansburg State Park, Pennsylvania, I explored this fall. Almost all historic abandoned buildings in the park are well documented, but some of them have not been awarded special attention.

One of them is a roadside three-story plastered stone house hidden away from prying eyes. The abandoned homestead, located at Skippack Creek, had looked pretty intact 20 years ago, but now it slowly and irreversibly turns into overgrown ruins.
The first reference to it is dated back to 1790. That year some Peter Williams acquired the property from Mary Bramwell, the widow of John Bramwell, to open a tavern. Something tells me the poor widow wasn’t happy of this deal.

The tavern (bearing the name of Peter Williams) used to play a certain role in life of the local community. First of all, it was a place in which the planning for the Skippack Bridge took place in 1792. That bridge on Germantown Pike over Skippack Creek is one of the oldest bridges in continuous use in the Unites States and probably the oldest to have retained its original dimensions.

As well, in the end of 18th century, the area became the center of the Funkites, former Mennonites splintered from the church as a result their support for the Revolutionary War. Circa 1815, Funkites founded their cemetery that lies in 5 minutes of walk from the Peter Williams tavern.

During 19th century, the tavern had changed a few owners and was used as a residential house.
According to 1848 map the building belonged to D. Hartzel.
Between 1860 and 1877, it had been owned by Abraham Detweiler (1824-1888), a farmer, and his wife Ann (died in 1894). Approximately during those years, the north portion was added to the house.

One of their descendants B. Detweiler inherited the house what is marked on a map of 1893.

Before Second World War, the land, house and farm outbuildings had been under ownership of Joseph Carberry family.

In 1969, the farmstead changed the owner again. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the property through Project 70 to establish the Evansburg State Park in Montgomery County and since then the house stays abandoned and forgotten.

You can see that the house is ready to collapse, and I have no idea how this poor guy is still able to stay.

"Legends say the abandoned house still holds whispers of their love and sorrow, tangled in the ivy that claims its walls. But those who stumble upon it swear they’ve seen fleeting shadows and heard faint melodies drifting through the trees." (Unknown author)

Should say that my modest historical research doesn't pretend to be a scientific investigation. Some facts don't seem to me to be very trustful, but it’s all I manage to find.

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I found a historic 1790 ABANDONED TAVERN in woods of Pennsylvania (Peter Williams Tavern)

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