Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rachel Carson Homestead, also known as Rachel Carson House, is a National Register of Historic Places site in Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States, 18 miles northeast of Pittsburgh along the Allegheny River. It is a five-room farmhouse which was the birthplace and childhood home of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring launched the modern environmentalism movement. She wrote her influential book Silent Spring at her later life home in Maryland. The homestead is managed by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association, a nonprofit organization established in 1975.