handsome structure, in admirable state of preservation as a farm house; while across a little brook and meadow stands the beautiful stone mansion which has been the private residence of the Slaymaker family for more than a century. It is one of a group of fine farm buildings in a well-im- proved and highly

, its beginning as a home dates from the 1750's and from this time until the present it has been the dwelling place of eight successive generations of the Slaymaker family of Lancaster County. Since this span of years covers every phase of the country's cultural development, the home is unique in that