Caspar Snyder House Explained

Caspar Snyder House
Coordinates:	40.7814°N -76.8419°W
Built:	1798
Architecture:	Colonial
Added:	Nov, 24 1978
Refnum:	09000101
Builder:	Caspar Snyder

The Caspar Snyder House (aka the Blue Ball Tavern), is a historic home in Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

History

The Caspar Snyder House was built by Caspar (aka Casper) Snyder,^[1] a Revolutionary War veteran who had emigrated from Germany prior to the war. Snyder built the home in 1798 in Augusta Township in Northumberland County. (The land on which it was constructed subsequently became part of Lower Augusta Township when the township was divided into Upper August and Lower Augusta townships in 1846.)^[2]

The building functioned as a local tavern for at least three generations.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Northumberland County Revolutionary War Militia. www.phmc.pa.gov. en-us. 2017-10-01.
2. "Historic Setting," in Comprehensive Plan Lower Augusta Township, Northumberland County, PA, pp. 37-39. Halifax, Pennsylvania: Leight-Heigle & Associates, Inc., April 1998.
3. Book: Bell, Herbert Charles. History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania: Including Its Aboriginal History, the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Early Settlement and Subsequent Growth, Political Organization, Agricultural, Mining, and Manufacturing Interests, Internal Improvements, Religious, Educational, Social, and Military History, Sketches of Its Boroughs, Villages, and Townships, Portraits and Biographies of Pioneers and Representative Citizens, Etc., Etc. 1891. Windmill Publications. en.