Cedar Lane Farm - Or, the Inn On Fiddlers Tract
Along Rt 192, Or Buffalo Road, outside of Lewisburg is a headstone for Christian Hettick. Today the stone is located at 2740 Buffalo Rd, Lewisburg Pa, in front of Tilo Industries. But early articles refer to it being on "Fiddlers Tract" - the farm just to the east, with the large stone house with boarded up windows.
Cedar Lane Farm, on Fiddlers Tract
In 1895, J. Merrill Lynn Esq. mentions Fiddlers Tract, in an article for the Lewisburg Journal:
"The surveyor noted in his field book the fine spring at Andrew Wolfe's, also the fine spring at the Cameron farm, and the one at Ellis Brown's.
This tract is known in tradition by the sobriquet of the " Fiddlers Tract," and the story is told that it was given to a fiddler for a night's performance on the violin upon occasion of one of the eccentrics of one of Penn's sons. There is no tracing the tradition to an authentic source, but Bremmer was a music dealer on the Strand, London. He may have been the fiddler, or most likely the fiddler won it at some night rendezvous and sold it to Bremmer. At any rate, Col. John Penn takes his location beside those of his officers, and he seems to have had it warranted or surveyed to Bremmer.."
[Meginness repeated this in his 1889 Otzinachson, A History Of the West Branch Valley]
As part of a 1978 Union County Historical Tour, The Daily Item published the following information on Cedar Lane Farm on Fiddlers Tract:
"Background on Cedar Lane Farm on Fiddler's Tract, owned by Mrs. Charles Wolfe Kalp, consists of a Pennsylvania German stone house built between 1810 and 1814 and 33 plus acres at the foot of Dale's Ridge, Rt. 192, Buffalo Township.
The farm was named for the growth of cedar trees on its mountain ridge and from the fact that in 1769 William Maclay (one of the state's first. senators) surveyed the land for John Penn the Proprietary who had given the tract of 1,434 acres to a London fiddler for "one night of music.'
In 1809 Andrew Wolfe, son of George Wendell Wolfe, Revolutionary War soldier, and Ann Elizabeth Reid, bought part of Fiddler's Tract with a log cabin on it at a sheriff's sale.
In 1810 he began construction of the stone mansion which was completed in 1814. The house was done in Federal design. Charles Wolfe Kalp is a descendant of this family. He became an attorney and was president judge of Snyder and Union counties. Judge Kalp died in 1973. At this time, the farm has been in the ownership of the same family for 168 years."
A Real Estate Listing for the farm, 1980
In 1991 the house was The Inn On Fiddlers Tract
A 1998 article about the Lilac Moon restaurant mentions that the Fiddlers Inn Bed and Breakfast was sold in 1996.
I do not like to share trespassing videos - but in this case it's the only photos of the inside I can find. And after this video, the house was boarded up and secured, so that others cannot go in and do more damage.
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A 1986 Real Estate Listing
Charles Wolfe Kalp 1908-1973
Son of John Lloyd & Martha [Wolfe] Kalp
Judge Kalp is buried in Lewisburg Cemetery
I remember painting the inside of several of those rooms before it became a B&B..especially spent hours upon hours on the woodwork in the library...it is a shame to see that beautiful place looking like it does now...an absolute shame!
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