The Eavenson-Myers-Hannum-Beebe House is a colonial farmhouse built c. 1740 off of Kirk Road. The center section of the house was built sometime c. 1740. The eastern end built in 1839 under Samuel Myers’ ownership, and the western section built in the late 1800s under the Elwood Hannum ownership. William Hannum was born in the house, and later went on to write the History of St. John’s, Concord Church.
The barn was rebuilt in 1930 by Lawrence Beebe after an earlier one burned in a fire. Stone from the William Pierce House was used in the barn reconstruction.
Dr. Donald T. Jones was born on the property in 1906. He became a nationally recognized orthopedic surgeon. His brother, Caleb Heyburn Jones, carved his initials into a window pane in the house.
Edward Quigley owned the farm from 1934 to 1948. Quigley was the Huntsman for the Rose Tree Hunt. Many subsequent Hunt Meets began on the farm.
The property was owned by the DeNenno Family in later years. Under their ownership, the property was an active dairy farm on 150 acres, and had many structures to support the farm such as three cow cribs, a milk house, pens, a silo, stables, a workshed, and a carriage house. Harold DeNenno was a dairy farmer, and at one point owned 45 cows and sold 2,000 gallons of milk a week to Wawa Dairies in the 1970s. His wife, Virginia DeNenno, is the founding president of the Concord Township Historical Society.
The farm was subdivided in the 1990s for a housing development.
This property is now part of the Woodside Farm Farm Market, where the public can purchase delicious, locally grown produce and food products.
Concord Township Historic Resource #50
