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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.…
Polecat Road House – The Historic Landmark that Started It All – Part II By: Karen Kendus In the last installment of History Unlocked, I discussed an important landmark found within the borders of Concord Township called the Polecat Road House. The preserved building standing there today looked rather different than the building donated to Concord Township by Arters Brothers Realty Company. The house in question was in…
Paper for the first U.S. Currency was produced by the Wilcox’s Ivy Mills Ivy Mills Property
Devastating flood waters struck Concord Township on September 13, 1971. The rain began on Sept 11 but was much harder on Sept 13th & water rose quickly. The Chester Creek and its branches & tributaries were flooded when a stationary front stalled over the local area. The destruction started in the western areas of Delaware County, including Concord, and continued downstream to Chester leaving a path of destruction. …
Did you know this community once thrived as a local mining area? Garnets were the “gems” of the Concord/Bethel area and a heavily used mine once existed near the entrance of The Clayton Park picnic area off of Garnet Mine Road. You may enjoy the following article, which was published in the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1992 and reflects direct quotes from our President Emeritus Ginny DeNenno. The article…
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.…
194 Polecat Road This early tenant house, built prior to 1750, is on Polecat Road across from Fox Valley Lane, in the Fox Valley Development. It is a simple, small, stone structure, originally built for two families. Each side of the building has one room on the main floor, a basement, and a loft area, served by a corner stairway. Each family unit has a corner fireplace on…