An undated photograph of farm buildings on what was the 80-acre Solomon “Reily” Hess farm in Lykens Township, Dauphin County,Pennsylvania, in 1875.
The farm is located northwest of Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as shown on the map cut above from an 1875 map of Lykens Township.
Originally, it was part of three separate parcels from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including land patented to Peter Schoffstall in 1812 and land patented to Henry Metzler in 1785.
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