The Rachel Carson Homestead is a National Register of Historic Places site that is located in Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States, eighteen miles northeast of Pittsburgh and near the Allegheny River.

The original four-room farmhouse was the birthplace and childhood home of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring launched the modern environmentalist movement.

[3] The house underwent few improvements during the Carson residence, as financial difficulties prevented the family from accomplishing their plan.

Carson and her family remained in this home until she completed her studies at the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929.

The house was sold to a local high school English teacher who updated utilities and added rooms, extending the footprint of the original home.