Jeremiah Burns Farm

The story

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The Jeremiah Burns Farm is a brick farmhouse and outbuildings at 10988 Fish and Game Rd. in Waynesboro, Franklin County, listed in the National Register in 2002. The farmhouse was built in 1832 in the Federal and Greek Revival styles.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criteria A, C and D, with local-level significance in agriculture, architecture and industry. Its period of significance runs from about 1774 to 1950, reflecting the 1774 purchase of the Calidity tract and the farmhouse's construction in 1832.

Physical character

The farmhouse has brick walls laid in Flemish bond on a limestone foundation, corbelled chimneys, gable-end parapets, and a two-story, three-bay recessed porch across the front. A barn built around 1900 has a gambrel roof and cantilevered forebay, and the foundation and raceway of an early sickle mill also survive on the farm.

Historical context

Jeremiah Burns inherited the family homestead in 1802 and married Sarah Renfrew in 1811. He died in 1847, and Sarah left the farm to their children when she died in 1853. The farm passed out of the Burns family when J. Morrow Burns died in 1897; the Wests bought it in 1939 and sold it in 1946 to Agnes Cunningham and Frances Jones.