Thomas Cassin Jr. House
The Thomas Cassin Jr. House is a farmhouse built c. 1850 on land previously owned by his father, Thomas Cassin. Thomas Jr. farmed the land, which contained a 200 tree apple orchard and 100 tree peach orchard. The Hudson Family owned the property around 1850. The current house was likely built by Andrew Hudson at that time. Andrew Hudson was a former indentured apprentice through the County House of Employment. He moved on to the property with his wife, four daughters, mother in law, and a boarder. His daughter Isabella would later go on to marry Samuel Newlin Hill, a former owner of the Newlin Grist Mill. The property passed to J.A. Couborn in 1892, and then to the Hutton Family in 1913. The Huttons operated a slaughterhouse business in the early to mid 1900s. The Ingram Family owned the property in the 1970s. This property is a private residence and not open to the public. Concord Township Historic Resource #90
Peter W. S. Slawter House
The Peter W. S. Slawter House is a Victorian frame house built c. 1880 off of Garnet Mine Road. It was built for Peter Winfield Sipe Slawter and Sarah Emma Slawter. Peter Winfield Sipe Slawter was a farmer and carpenter by trade, according to 1900 and 1910 Census records. He specialized in building spiral staircases, and built two for his farmhouse. He owned 11 acres of land, and live in the house with his five children. Peter Slawter’s family were members of Elam Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is buried in its graveyard. The property stayed within the Slawter family for three generations. This property is now part of Renegade Flower Farm, and they plan to restore the farmhouse and offer it as a historic Air BnB. You can read more about Renegade Flower Farm and the Slawter House at the link below: https://renegadeflowerfarm.com/slawter-farmhouse Concord Township Historic Resource #3
John Williamson House
This farmhouse was built c. 1845 on 24 acres for John Williamson. The 24 acres were previously part of Robert Gamble’s 53 acre property that he purchased from Robert McCay. Williamson sold the property to Edward R. Helmbold in 1849. The property was described in 1851 records as comprised of “a six room frame house with a front porch, a stable, spring water, some woodland, and fields fertilized with guano [bat excrement]” (DCR, December 5, 1851). The property was sold to George F. Gilbert in 1860, an engraver by trade. It then passed to Thomas Wheeler in 1861, and then to Mary A. Stanbridge in 1888. Paul G. Wright purchased the property in 1913. A sawmill was established here in 1918 by Horace D. Wright, and operated up until the 1950s. The mill mainly cut native hardwoods for local industrial use. During World War II, the mill cut massive timbers used for mine sweepers, or small warships used for detonating or removing underwater mines. A devastating fire in 1971 gutted the house causing much of the original architecture to be lost. Several new additions and renovations were added to the house after the fire as well. This property is a private residence and not open to the public. Concord Township Historic Resource #60
John Speakman House
The John Speakman House was a Georgian-style stucco over stone farmhouse built c. 1800. Also once on the property were ruins of a springhouse/residence, a large frame barn that was much older than the house, a frame corncrib, and mushroom houses. The right side of the home indicated earlier construction and contained an unusually large corner cooking fireplace. The springhouse ruins indicated that an earlier house was built over the spring c. 1730s that belonged to the Brinton family. John Speakman was a farmer by trade. In 1850, he was farming 99 of 129 acres and growing hay, corn, oats, wheat, grass, potatoes, and fruit. The farm was valued at $9,030 in 1850. The property remained in the Speakman family until the early 1900s when it was purchased by Milton Heyburn. The Masciantonio Family owned the farm in its later years. The property was once home to an old sawmill and a mushroom farm. This property was demolished in 2001 to develop an office building at Baltimore Pike and Route 202, but the ice house was saved and moved to the Pierce-Willits House where it can be viewed by the public. Concord Township Historic Resource #15