Okehocking Historic District
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House in the Okehocking Historic District, December 2010
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| Location | Roughly bounded by West Chester Pike, Plumsock Road, Goshen Road, and Garrett Mill Road, near Media, Willistown Township, Pennsylvania |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | 1,400 acres (570 ha) |
| Built | 1703 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 93000719[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 2, 1993 |
Okehocking Historic District, also known as the Okehocking Indian Land Grant Historic District, is a national historic district located in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 69 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in a rural area near Media. A majority of the buildings were built before 1845. It includes a collection of 18th and 19th century farmhouses and related outbuildings located on an 18th-century Indian Land Grant by William Penn to the Okehocking band of Lenape (Delaware) Indians in 1703. Notable contributing assets include a Willistown Friends Meetinghouse and its burial ground, a one-room school known as the Willistown School No. 6, a former inn known as the Rising Sun Tavern, the vacated Smedley Mill, and three mill sites, the Garrett Mill, Duckett Mill, and George Matlack's sawmill.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.[1]
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