Built into the hillside in two stages just behind the main house, the root cellar stored provisions before refrigeration became available

Ice was cut from a pond once located straight down the hill from the ice house, toward Ivy Mills Road. There are several squared outlines remaining for openings in the interior and side walls of the building. The largest was probably to provide a space through which ice was lowered into the ice pit; the purpose of the other openings was for light and air. The wooden second…

Family Cemetery dating to the early 19th century  

This barn was constructed to replace one of the largest barns in the county that burned down in the 1940’s.  

Thomas Willcox first appears in public document of Concord in1725. He leased water rights on the West Branch in 1727, and purchased land for a mill in 1729. During the 18th Century, the Willcox Paper Mill produced pasteboard, sandpaper grade paper, and commercial grade. The commercial grade was used for currency and other government issue in several colonies, and in such noteworthy institutions as Benjamin Franklin’s printing shop.…

43 Thornton Road In 1827, deep divisions over theology and policy led to a split in the Concord Friends Meeting. The faction known as the Hicksite remained in the 1728 building, and those who called themselves Orthodox moved out. The two groups continued to share the plot of land, and in 1837 the Orthodox Friends built a new meeting house a few hundred feet from the original one.…