Shirley township
The Walker Farmstead, south of Shirleysburg
On the west side of U.S. Route 522, three tenths of a mile south of the Shirleysburg borough line, which puts it in Shirley township rather than the borough. The Historic American Buildings Survey recorded the farmstead in nine photographs and eighteen pages of documentation.
Checked 2026-09-01 · Library of Congress HABS/HAER survey
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