Historic Area Map
1. Visitor Center
2. Boone House
The present-day, two-story Boone House evolved from a one-story log house built by Squire Boone in 1730. Daniel Boone was born in this original log house in 1734. Following the Boone’s departure for North Carolina in 1750, William Maugridge purchased the structure and lived there until his death in 1766. In 1770, John DeTurk, a Pennsylvania German farmer, purchased the house and began decades of changes and additions that reflect the growing prosperity of the region. This house is representative of typical Oley Valley farmhouses and shows evidence of both English and German architectural influences.
3. Boone House Cellar
This is the original spring cellar of Squire Boone’s log house. The stone walls are the foundations of the Boone’s log house; and along the south wall, the original spring can be seen flowing through a trough in the floor. This flowing spring made the cellar ideal for food storage and helped to cool and preserve food for the Boone family and later residents of this house.
4. Smokehouse
This structure was used to smoke pork and other meats as a means of preservation. Here, the meat hung from joists with a fire of apple and hickory woods (preferably) built directly on the dirt floor below. The loft space was used as a meat storage area.
5. Blacksmith Shop
This structure was built near Amityville in 1769 and later moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead. Daniel Boone’s father, Squire Boone, was a blacksmith by trade and would have had a similar shop on his farm. In 18th-century blacksmith shops like this, rural blacksmiths produced and repaired wrought-iron tools and hardware for farm and home, and shod horses and oxen.
6. Homestead Barn
This Pennsylvania German bank barn is the type that the DeTurk family likely owned in the late-18th century. Portions of this barn are original. The lower level was a stable for animals, with the shod on the right used for wagon and implement storage. The barn is oriented to the south to take advantage of the low winter sun to warm the stables, and the bank protects it from harsh winds.
7. Barn Threshing Floor
The upper level of the barn was used for the storage of straw, hay, and grain. The central bay was used as a threshing floor or work area. The implements exhibited are of the type and quantity listed in the inventory of John DeTurk’s estate in 1808.
8. Bertolet House
The Bertolet House was built in 1737 on another site in the Oley Valley, and relocated to the Daniel Boone Homestead in 1968. The Bertolet House is an excellent example of 18th-century Pennsylvania German log architecture. In typical Germanic fashion, the fireplace is centrally located and opens into the kitchen, or Kuche. Behind the fireplace are two rooms; the larger is the parlor, or Stube, and the smaller is a bedroom, or Kammer. Medieval architectural influence can be seen in the building’s asymmetry, steeply pitched roof, flared eaves, and casement windows.
9. Bertolet Bakehouse/Smokehouse
This building was moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead along with the Bertolet House in 1968. The building combines a bake house and smokehouse under one roof. The clay tiles were a common Germanic roofing material.
10. Bertolet Sawmill
This water-powered, vertical-blade sawmill was built in Oley Township by Daniel Bertolet in the late-18th or early-19th century and was moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead in 1972.
11. DeTurk Cemetery
This cemetery is the burial place of several members of the John and Samuel DeTurk families. John and Samuel, brothers, owned adjoining farms on the present-day Daniel Boone Homestead historical site. John owned the ‘Boone House’ from 1770 to 1808, and Samuel’s 1812 house is located today near the entrance to the site.
12. Daniel Boone Lake
13. Rifle Range
This 18th-century target range is the scene of a number of yearly flintlock marksmanship demonstrations by the First Pennsylvania Regiment.
14. North Picnic Area
15. Picnic Grove
16. Utility Building
17. South Picnic Area
18. Wayside Lodge
19. DeTurk Education Center
This structure was built in 1812 by Samuel DeTurk, brother of John DeTurk, the owner of the ‘Boone House’ from 1770 to 1808. Samuel is buried in the DeTurk Cemetery on-site. This building is now used for educational and public programs.
20. Maintenance Barn
2. Boone House
The present-day, two-story Boone House evolved from a one-story log house built by Squire Boone in 1730. Daniel Boone was born in this original log house in 1734. Following the Boone’s departure for North Carolina in 1750, William Maugridge purchased the structure and lived there until his death in 1766. In 1770, John DeTurk, a Pennsylvania German farmer, purchased the house and began decades of changes and additions that reflect the growing prosperity of the region. This house is representative of typical Oley Valley farmhouses and shows evidence of both English and German architectural influences.
3. Boone House Cellar
This is the original spring cellar of Squire Boone’s log house. The stone walls are the foundations of the Boone’s log house; and along the south wall, the original spring can be seen flowing through a trough in the floor. This flowing spring made the cellar ideal for food storage and helped to cool and preserve food for the Boone family and later residents of this house.
4. Smokehouse
This structure was used to smoke pork and other meats as a means of preservation. Here, the meat hung from joists with a fire of apple and hickory woods (preferably) built directly on the dirt floor below. The loft space was used as a meat storage area.
5. Blacksmith Shop
This structure was built near Amityville in 1769 and later moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead. Daniel Boone’s father, Squire Boone, was a blacksmith by trade and would have had a similar shop on his farm. In 18th-century blacksmith shops like this, rural blacksmiths produced and repaired wrought-iron tools and hardware for farm and home, and shod horses and oxen.
6. Homestead Barn
This Pennsylvania German bank barn is the type that the DeTurk family likely owned in the late-18th century. Portions of this barn are original. The lower level was a stable for animals, with the shod on the right used for wagon and implement storage. The barn is oriented to the south to take advantage of the low winter sun to warm the stables, and the bank protects it from harsh winds.
7. Barn Threshing Floor
The upper level of the barn was used for the storage of straw, hay, and grain. The central bay was used as a threshing floor or work area. The implements exhibited are of the type and quantity listed in the inventory of John DeTurk’s estate in 1808.
8. Bertolet House
The Bertolet House was built in 1737 on another site in the Oley Valley, and relocated to the Daniel Boone Homestead in 1968. The Bertolet House is an excellent example of 18th-century Pennsylvania German log architecture. In typical Germanic fashion, the fireplace is centrally located and opens into the kitchen, or Kuche. Behind the fireplace are two rooms; the larger is the parlor, or Stube, and the smaller is a bedroom, or Kammer. Medieval architectural influence can be seen in the building’s asymmetry, steeply pitched roof, flared eaves, and casement windows.
9. Bertolet Bakehouse/Smokehouse
This building was moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead along with the Bertolet House in 1968. The building combines a bake house and smokehouse under one roof. The clay tiles were a common Germanic roofing material.
10. Bertolet Sawmill
This water-powered, vertical-blade sawmill was built in Oley Township by Daniel Bertolet in the late-18th or early-19th century and was moved to the Daniel Boone Homestead in 1972.
11. DeTurk Cemetery
This cemetery is the burial place of several members of the John and Samuel DeTurk families. John and Samuel, brothers, owned adjoining farms on the present-day Daniel Boone Homestead historical site. John owned the ‘Boone House’ from 1770 to 1808, and Samuel’s 1812 house is located today near the entrance to the site.
12. Daniel Boone Lake
13. Rifle Range
This 18th-century target range is the scene of a number of yearly flintlock marksmanship demonstrations by the First Pennsylvania Regiment.
14. North Picnic Area
15. Picnic Grove
16. Utility Building
17. South Picnic Area
18. Wayside Lodge
19. DeTurk Education Center
This structure was built in 1812 by Samuel DeTurk, brother of John DeTurk, the owner of the ‘Boone House’ from 1770 to 1808. Samuel is buried in the DeTurk Cemetery on-site. This building is now used for educational and public programs.
20. Maintenance Barn