Pearce-Wheeler Farm

640 Sims Cemetery Rd., Canmer, Kentucky. County/parish: Hart.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 25, 2005. NRIS 05001317.

4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.

Also known as:

  • Harlow Farm
  • HT-249

From Wikipedia:

Pearce-Wheeler Farm

The Pearce-Wheeler Farm, near Canmer in Hart County, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The listing included four contributing buildings and a contributing site.

It includes a main house (c.1847), a smokehouse (c.1847), a livestock barn (c.1847), a large mule barn (c.1903), and a "small building, now in ruins, said to have once been a slave house. The former slave house originally was located just behind the main house, then moved closer to the barns and converted to use as a harness shop during the Wheeler ownership."

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123850334

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