178 Keil Farm Rd., Walhalla, South Carolina. County/parish: Oconee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 20, 1998. NRIS 98000557.
7 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.
The Keil Farm is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located near South Carolina Highway 11 in the vicinity of Walhalla, South Carolina, in Oconee County. The property includes a c. 1850 farm house and six contributing outbuildings. The farm, built by John Henry Keil, Sr. (born Johann Heinreich Keil in Stotel, Germany) is seen as an important symbol of the role German immigrant families played in the development of the area.
The farmstead was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1997, due to its well-preserved mid-19th-century agricultural landscape.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/118998237