page_title: The Hess Homestead
section_title: The 1740s Log Farmhouse
hierarchical_section_title: The Hess Homestead / The 1740s Log Farmhouse
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo of a corner post on the log farmhouse at the Hess Homestead
context_page_description: The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, who purchased the land from William Penn's sons in 1735.
  The primary buildings at this site were constructed by the Hess family in the 18th century, including a 1740s log farmhouse, a 1778 stone farmhouse, and a 1769 oil mill. Both houses served as church meeting houses for the local Mennonite community until 1856, when the first Hess Mennonite church building was constructed nearby. The homestead structures survive today, on several adjoining properties, as examples of vernacular architecture of the Pennsylvania Germans.
caption: A cornerpost of the log farmhouse
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