English: The Peter Hershey House, 38 Richfield Road, Amherst, New York, June 2020. Though nowadays altered with a modern asphalt shingle roof and a 1920s-era front porch that lends the house an appearance something akin to a Craftsman bungalow, the Hershey House is a side-gabled vernacular stone house which may be one of the oldest buildings in the town, possibly dating to as early as the 1810s, and which has been listed as a Designated Historic Property by the Town of Amherst Historic Preservation Commission. A native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and a distant relation of Milton Hershey of chocolate bar fame, Peter Hershey (1763-1819) arrived in Amherst in 1811 and purchased the 100-acre plot of land on which the house now stands from land agent Wilhelm Willink of the Holland Land Company. By the time of his death, aside from having become quite a successful cattle farmer, Hershey was serving as the town's Overseer of the Poor. The Hershey farmhouse stood on Main Street across from what's today Williamsville South High School; it's likely the building here served as a barn (a "stone room barn" is mentioned on a deed to the property dated 1890). The suburban neighborhood that surrounds the house now began to develop in the 1920s.