This Ice House was originally part of the Speakman property, where Applied Card is now.   It was taken down and reassembled in the 1990s behind the Pierce-Willits house as an example of how perishable items were stored before refrigeration.

This two-seater Outhouse was built in the 1940s and was located on the Cloud-Vernon property, near the house that is part of the Riviera development along Concord Road.  It was donated to the Society and moved here in the 1990s.

The Carriage House was attached to the main house and can be accessed through the kitchen addition.  It was restored in the 1990s and today houses a collection of early farm tools.

The garage dates to about 1920, and can accommodate two vehicles. It can be seen in the photograph below of the mushroom buildings to the west of the Pierce-Willits house, on the far right behind the vintage automobiles.

This important historic home, Historic Resource #77, is located on Smithbridge Road, near the Rachel Kohl Library and near the American Hero Memorial. The Pierce-Willits House is the headquarters of CTHS and is the site of the Virginia Merion DeNenno History and Education Center. Francis P. Willits, born November 3, 1856, and a graduate of the Maplewood Institute (the site of the new Concord Township Municipal Complex) bought…

John and Margery Hannum of Concord were baptized in an early Quaker separatist group formed by George Keith who was subsequently ordained in England as an Anglican priest. They donated one acre off the northwest corner of their hundred acre property for St. John’s Church in 1702. A plaque in the middle of what is now the cemetery shows where the first church, a 24′ x 36′ log…

Nathaniel Newlin and Mary Mendenhall came to America on the Liver of Liverpool in 1683, he from Ireland with his parents, she with her brothers from England. After their marriage, they established a grist mill along the West Branch of Chester creek, downstream from two mills owned by his father, and a third mill owned by Mary‚Äôs brother. Thirty-five years later, their grandson, also named Nathaniel, doubled the…

Nathaniel Newlin and Mary Mendenhall came to America on the Liver of Liverpool in 1683, he from Ireland with his parents, she with her brothers from England. After their marriage, they established a grist mill along the West Branch of Chester creek, downstream from two mills owned by his father, and a third mill owned by Mary‚Äôs brother. Thirty-five years later, their grandson, also named Nathaniel, doubled the…

Nathaniel Newlin and Mary Mendenhall came to America on the Liver of Liverpool in 1683, he from Ireland with his parents, she with her brothers from England. After their marriage, they established a grist mill along the West Branch of Chester creek, downstream from two mills owned by his father, and a third mill owned by Mary‚Äôs brother. Thirty-five years later, their grandson, also named Nathaniel, doubled the…