The Thomas Newlin House was built c. 1805 and sits on land part of the original 614 acres purchased by Nathaniel Newlin in 1704. Thomas Newlin was the great-grandson of the first Nathaniel Newlin and obtained 124 acres from Nathaniel III in 1766. Thomas Newlin built the present house in 1805.
The Thomas Newlin House is a Georgian fieldstone farmhouse with an added Victorian crossable. A date stone was built into the third-floor peak of the house, marking the 1805 build year. The property also featured two tenant homes, a storehouse, two barns, wheelwright and blacksmith shops, and a springhouse. The farm was valued at $4,000 in the 1850 Agricultural Census.
Thomas Newlin was a farmer and blacksmith by trade and operated his shop on the farm. He married Sarah Grubb, and together they had seven children. Their son John Newlin inherited the farm and was the father of prominent Concord Township Community member and local school teacher Beulah Newlin Pennington. Mrs. Pennington was a longtime supporter of the Concord Township Historical Society and gave CTHS many antique furniture, china, and photos from this home that can now be seen in our museum.
This building is a private residence and is not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #8
