This property was originally a barn built c. 1870 by Brinton J. Heyburn that was converted into a house in 1985 by the Hartle Family.
James B. Miller purchased 111 acres from Susannah Harper in 1817, and then passed the property on to John Miller in 1843. By 1870, Brinton J. Heyburn owned the property after marrying a Miller daughter. Heyborn built the existing barn structure on the property around this time. J. Willard Brinton owned the property in the 1940s. The property was subdivided after this time, and the barn portion of the property was sold to the Hartle Family in 1981.
Brinton J. Heyburn was a veteran of the American Civil War as part of Company D in the 124th Regiment. He served alongside many other residents of Concord Township in this Company, and was mentioned in John Palmer’s letters to his family when Heyburn and Palmer were stationed in Harper’s Ferry during the war. He writes: “There are many graves around us. L. Martin, Wm. & B. Heyburn are on the next spot to where I am stationed. There are in a more unpleasant place. They are right among the graves which are very shallow” (James B. Stabler, ed., “Thy Affectionate Son…”: A Collection of Letters of Three Brothers: John Palmer, William T. Palmer, and Edward L. Palmer from the 1860s, 1993, pp. 15-16).
This property is a private residence and not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #93
