Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Exeter Township is a township in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,500 as of the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous municipality in Berks County after the city of Reading and Spring Township. Daniel Boone Homestead is within its borders. This formerly rural township is now made up of mostly sprawl-oriented developments along U.S. Route 422 and Route 562 Its school district also contains the adjacent borough of St. Lawrence.
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John Bishop House
Boonecroft, home of the grandfather of Daniel Boone
Exeter Friends Meeting House in Exeter Township where the ancestors of Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln were mutual Quaker church members
The Daniel Boone Homestead, the birthplace of American frontiersman Daniel Boone, is a museum and historic house that is administered by the Friends of the Daniel Boone Homestead near Birdsboro in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is located on nearly 600 acres (2.4 km2) and is the largest site owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The staff at Daniel Boone Homestead interpret the lives of the three main families that lived at the Homestead: the Boones, the Maugridges and the DeTurks. The park is just off U.S. Route 422 north of Birdsboro in Exeter Township.
This house stands over the site of the log cabin that Daniel Boone was born in. The basement in the house is original to the log cabin.
Fireplace in the Daniel Boone Homestead kitchen
The Wayside Lodge at Daniel Boone Homestead. Built in 1940.