Schaeffer House

Brendle Farms, also known as the Alexander Schaeffer Farm and Sheetz Farm, is a historic home and farm located at Schaefferstown in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The house was built about 1750, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Swiss bank house with a large arched wine cellar and distillery. Also on the property are a contributing bank barn (c. 1894), stone pigsty (c. 1740), limestone smokehouse, wheat barn (c. 1840), and wagon shed and corn crib. A second 2+1⁄2-story dwelling is located on the Lower Farm, along with a Swiss bank barn. The house is part of the Historic Schaefferstown museum.Brendle Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Schaeffer House located on the Upper Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011.

Schaefferstown (Pennsylvania German: Schaefferschteddel) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 941 at the 2010 census.

Heidelberg Hall, also known as The Weigley Mansion, is located at 1373 Heidelberg Avenue, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania is a reddish-brown sandstone grand mansion designed in the Second Empire architectural style. It was built from 1876 to 1882, for William M. Weigley, one of Lebanon County’s wealthiest and most influential men during the late nineteenth century, and designed by the noted Philadelphia architect Isaac Harding Hobbs. The architectural firm of Isaac H. Hobbs & Son was known for designing various structures including churches, banks, office buildings and schools using various architectural styles including Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Renaissance Revival, Chalet, and Greek Revival. Their most publicized work was expressively ornate mansard-roofed suburban and country residences which includes the Weigley Mansion, and was published in Godey’s Lady’s Magazine in April 1875, Scientific American in July 1875, and Isaac Hobbs 1876 publication still in print by Dover Publications. Weigley Mansion (Heidelberg Hall) is a classic example of Gilded Age exuberance as it includes design features such as two front towers, detailed chestnut wood moldings, thick solid paneled chestnut interior doors, a projecting second-story open porch, ornamental cast iron roof crests, three large formal entrance ways, high decorative plaster ceilings, several ornate chandeliers, a grand main staircase and nine fireplaces.

The Philip Erpff House is an historic, American home that is located in Schaefferstown, in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The Rex House, also known as the Gemberling-Rex House, is an historic, American home that is located in Schaefferstown in Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1729 by early Pennsylvania German settlers, his structure is a 2+1⁄2-story, half timbered residence with originally scored plaster exterior and, currently, a horizontal wooden siding and a gable roof. It measures thirty-two feet by twelve feet and has gable end brick chimneys. Also on the property are a contributing smoke house, bake oven, stone foundation of a barn and outhouse and cistern.

Elizabeth Township is a township in north central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,998 at the 2020 census.

Heidelberg Township is a township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,080 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Lebanon, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Bomberger's Distillery, more recently Michter's Distillery, is a non-operating distillery facility that was, at the end of the twentieth century, believed to be the oldest remaining such building in the United States. The distillery closed in 1989. Although there are whiskey products currently on the market using the Bomberger's and Michter's brand names, they are more recently introduced products that have no direct connection to the old distillery. The complex, which is located near Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, represented the transformation of whiskey distilling from an agricultural enterprise into a large-scale industry. The surviving still house, warehouse, and jug house date from about 1840, but the site has a documented history of spirit production since 1753.Bomberger's was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980. The facility was America's smallest commercial distiller at the time of its 1989 closure.

Waldeck is an unincorporated community in southeastern Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States, located on Route 501, south of Schaefferstown. It is on the northern edge of the Furnace Hills in Heidelberg Township and is drained by Hammer Creek southward into Cocalico Creek. The community is served by the Newmanstown post office, with ZIP code 17073.

Keller Brothers Airport (FAA LID: 08N) is a privately owned, public-use airport 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Lebanon, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

The Horse-Shoe Trail is a 140-mile (230 km) hiking and horseback riding trail in southeastern Pennsylvania, United States. It begins at Valley Forge National Park and ends at a junction with the Appalachian Trail near Harrisburg. Most of the trail is in an agricultural region with gently rolling topography, where it generally follows rural roads and old country lanes, but the western end is much more mountainous and rugged. A 17-mile segment of the trail in Chester and Berks counties has been designated as a National Recreation Trail.

Clay Township is a township in north central Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 6,887 at the 2020 census.