It is near the American Civil War battlefield Antietam, Washington Monument State Park, and the Appalachian Trail.
Stoney Creek Farm stayed in the Crane family until July 24, 2000, when it was sold to Mark and Kimberly Schmidt.
The trio restored it in 2005 and it is now a quiet bed and breakfast with four bedrooms and an event site hosting numerous weddings, private parties and corporate retreats throughout the year.
The Schlosser family has long ties to Boonsboro and Washington County, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania after their immigration from Germany in the late 18th century.
He had married the former Susannah Regnas in Cumberland, Maryland, on April 4, 1769, who had been born in Germany on September 28, 1749, and they had four children together, including John.
Joel’s son Enos Schlosser married the former Mary Eleanor Hoover (born February 19, 1845) on January 4, 1866.
Joel’s eldest son Josiah continued to live with his parents and would eventually take ownership of the estate and operate the farm along with his own family.
A notice appeared in the January 17, 1866, edition of the Hagerstown Herald & Torch Light newspaper that mentioned Schlosser’s Fording, a low area across Antietam Creek adjacent to the farm where wagons could cross the riverbed.
The bridge was damaged in 1881, requiring residents to again traverse across the creek bed for a short time, as posted in a later edition of the newspaper.
A notice of the sale was reprinted from the Boonsboro’ Odd Fellow in the November 21, 1877, edition of the Hagerstown Herald & Torch Light newspaper.
The 1880 census was enumerated at the farm, and listed Catherine as the head of the household; this time, she correctly stated her age of 64.
The 1890 census for the country was almost completely destroyed by a fire where it was being stored, before it could be copied, making it difficult to determine occupants of houses during that year.
Minnie and Harvey sold the house on March 30, 1973, to Clarence B. and Helene F. Crane after an approximately 140-year tenure by the Schlosser family.
Larry, later operated a retail greenhouse business in Boonsboro, called Mountainside Gardens, which he expanded into a wholesale nursery on the farm, along with his second wife, Laurie.
The Schmidts installed electrical service and utilities to most of the buildings on the property, built the addition on the side of the bank barn, restored the spring house and raised its floor to prevent flooding, constructed the guest house, renovated the garage into an office and remodeled the hog barn to accommodate Kimberly’s desire to run a horse-boarding business on the farm.
They also removed the greenhouses from the property, created several miles of riding trails and installed fencing and frame stables for the horses.
Mark and Kimberly Schmidt sold the farm to Brandon Green, Joseph Farone, and David Kempton on October 31, 2004.
Green, Farone, and Kempton formed SFC, LLC which now owns and operates Stoney Creek Farm.