Built around 1875, the Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck is an attractive three-story house in the country town of Hillsboro, West
Virginia. It was hand-constructed by a Dutch refugee family escaping religious persecution in Holland. Famous writer Pearl
S. Buck was born at the house in 1892 while her parents, Caroline Stulting and Absalom Sydenstricker, were on leave from Presbyterian
missionary work in China. Pearl was the first woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes in literature.
