The nine farmsteads are located within the Six Mile Run Historic District. The Historic District lies within the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park’s Six Mile Run Reservoir Site. The over 3,000 acres comprising the reservoir site was acquired by the State during 1960s and 1970s. In 1990 the plans for the reservoir were abandoned and the land was transferred to the State’s Division of Parks and Forestry to be managed as open space and parkland. The buildings comprising this project date from the eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century. The Six Mile Run Historic District embodies Dutch settlement and agricultural development. Both the Peter and Jacob Wycoff farmstead and the Polhemus farmstead contain Dutch barns and other farm out buildings. Some have been altered over time to reflect changing agricultural practices.  

The Trust grant will help fund a condition assessment of nine historic farmstead complexes. The proposed project will also provide prioritized repair recommendations and inform future reuse evaluation of the properties. 

For more information, visit https://visitsomersetnj.org/fun-somerset-nj/six-mile-run-historic-district/