The McCall-Hance-Merion House and farm complex was built c. 1776 and is on part of an original land grant of 200 acres from William Penn to John Beale. In 1742, Beale sold 125 acres to Thomas and Robert Gihen, and Thomas left his half of 62.5 acres to his wife Elizabeth in 1750. Elizabeth later married Thomas McCall, and they owned 125 acres in 1776. In 1787, their…

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…

The Reece Pyle House was built c. 1850 after John Miller sold 50 acres to Reece Pyle in 1843. The house is a stucco-over-stone farmhouse, and features two later additions built c. 1940. The house overlooks a spring and faces east. The springhouse located on the property was built much earlier, c. 1730. The land at that time was owned by Matthias Kerlin, and is associated with his…

The John Beale -Joshua Perkins House is a log and stone farmhouse built c. 1660 with later additions in 1906 and 1936. It is the oldest surviving building in Concord Township! The land (30 acres on the 200-acre Beale Grant) was purchased from the Lenni Lenape in 1652, with the papers signed with the thumbprint of the chief. Smallbrook is a 2.5-story, 3-bay single-pave log house with Swedish…

The former No. 5 Public Schoolhouse, sometimes called the McCartney School, was a one-roomed, brick school built c. 1875 along Kirk Road. The Concord Township School Board paid $530 for 1 acre of land from Samuel Myers and $2,160.50 to build the schoolhouse, according to the Concord Township School Board Minutes from 1836-1883. Lewis W. Kitzelman received the contract to build the school, and Benjamin Green built the…

The Isaac Cornog House was built c. 1850 in Concordville near the intersection of Route 1 and Concord Road. It is a distinctive stone house with a wrap around porch. The Cornogs were a prominent historic family within Concord Township. The Cornog Family originally came to Pennsylvania in the 1730s from Wales. Isaac Cornog (1816-1880) was born in Haverford in 1816, but moved to Concordville around 1850 as…

Joseph Trimble originally purchased the land in 1782 from William Trimble, and was living in a 40 x 20 foot two-story stone house by 1798. The present house was built c. 1848 for Jesse Palmer. Palmer purchased 126 acres and the original stone house in 1843. Palmer likely tore down the original 40 x 20-foot house and used the stone to make the current home. It is also…

The John Larkin House is a stone farmhouse built in two sections: the earliest portion was built between 1790 and 1798, and the second was built in 1830. The house also has a 1980s kitchen addition and a 2003 family room addition. John Larkin was a farmer and Quaker. His son, John Larkin Jr., was born in this house in 1804. John Larkin Jr. became the first mayor…

John Palmer purchased 100 acres in 1688, and went on to become Constable of Concord and played an important role in the development of the township. He and his descendants owned property throughout Concord and were prominent members of the Quaker community. Joseph Palmer, the great-great grandson of John Palmer, purchased 95 acres along the Concord-Bethel border from his father, Moses Palmer Jr., in 1789. He then sold…

The Pennell Peters House is a Southeastern Pennsylvania stucco and stone farmhouse built in 1833 for Pennell and Rebecca Peters. The house has features a later kitchen addition, but remained relatively unchanged throughout the years. George Lea received 200 acres from William Penn in 1704. The land was later sold to Nathaniel Newlin then back to Lea and then on to Ralph Eavenson. By 1739, Daniel Pyle purchased…