UTICA C. H. Heydrick Farm and Home

Heydrick Farm

Genealogical Record of the descendants of the Schwenkfelders, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733, 1734, 1736, 1737. Manayunk: Josephus Yeakel, Printer, 4402 Cresson St. 1879.

p. 141- "Charles Henry Heydrick was born at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, March 5, 1799. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania, removed to Venango County, Pa., in 1826, where he has ever since resided. Was elected County Auditor in 1842, appointed Deputy Surveyor for Venango County by the Surveyor-General January 22, 1845, reappointed May 29, 1845, and held the office under the latter appointment until it became elective, under the title of County Surveyor, in 1850, when he was elected for the term of three years; re-elected in 1853 and again in 1856. The Indian village of Custalogastown was located on his farm, and the remains of wigwams were visible when he first visited the place in 1819." C.H. Heydrick married Mary Ann Adams, daughter of James and Rachel Black Adams.

Utica Centennial Celebration Booklet � 1963

The Heydrick Farm was one of the first farms near Utica to be cultivated. This farm region was formerly called Custaloga�s Town (abode of a tribe of Delawares known as the Wolf Tribe). It was alluvial �bottom land,� best in the whole region, having been cultivated for many years.
BR>The first building was a log cabin built in the 1790s. The logs were notched so that the top part of thejoint would overlap the bared wood of the lower part and protect it from weathering and rotting at the joints. The logs were so jointed that they touched one another their whole length and then were chinked with clay.

The old Heydrick homestead was built at the turn of the nineteenth century. It is built of brick made on the farm. The bricks lying flat and smooth on the basement floor are double width. The chimneys form a �Y� around the three story windows to make one chimney protruding from either side of the beautiful old home. There are four spacious rooms downstairs with a fireplace in each room. A mahogany banister leads to the second floor. There are five bedrooms some of which have fireplaces made of native brick and stone. There are massive double windows throughout the house with casements about a foot wide.

In 1915 some of the descendants of the Heydricks had a marker erected to the memory of Guyasutha � A Chief of the Delaware Indians.

The farm was sold in the early 1960s to the Mercer County Boy Scout Council.

Transcribed by Penny Haylett Minnick
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Disclaimer:there may be errors due to transcription of information from both early and late (current contributors) work.