The Trimble-Darlington House was built c. 1783 for Samuel Trimble as a two story stone field house on 43 acres that once belonged to John Hatton.
Samuel Trimble was a hatter by trade. It is alleged that the Marquis de Lafayette visited the Trimble family in 1824 at this house during his farewell tour! The property stayed within the Trimble family until 1836 when it was sold to Nathan Middleton. Middleton farmed the land until 1850 when he put the house up for sale. It was described as being a two story stone house with a front piazza, multiple parlors, a dining room, and a kitchen. Also on the property was a pump well, a stone and frame barn with stables and granaries,, carriage, straw, and corn outbuildings. The farm was valued at $5,000 in 1850.
Middleton sold the property to William Scattergood who owned the property until his death in 1857. The property was then sold at a public sale to Dr. Hillborn Darlington, a local physician. Dr. Darlington operated his practice out of the home, and later used the house as a nursing home. His son, Dr. Horace Darlington, owned the property after him. Dr. Horace Darlington’s son Canby Darlington, organized the Concord Fire Department and was at one time the Fire and Police Chief for Concord Township. The home and land remained in the Darlington family until 1948.
The property is now subdivided into private apartments, and not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #120
