The Daniel Pyle House was built c. 1790 as a log structure on a 200-acre land grant originally deeded to George Lea by William Penn in 1702. According to the 1798 Glass Tax, Pyle paid 200 pounds of taxes for the 22’ x 16’ log house and a stone smokehouse.
The log section of the house on the left contains a wooden date marker for Daniel and Prudence Pyle, 1790, but the property is mentioned on an earlier deed from 1789. The stone side of the house was built in 1803 by Dutton and Margaret Pyle. The front of the home was originally on the opposite side, as the farm lane came off Naaman’s Creek Road instead of Pyle Road.
The Pyle Family were farmers and quite active in Concord Township’s local life. They were Quakers by faith and members of the Concord Friends Meeting. They tended to their farm for close to 200 years.
The home stayed with the Pyle family until 1985. Various outbuildings also comprised the property: a corncrib, chicken house, a garage, and ruins of a large barn that burned in the 1970s.
This property is a private residence and not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #5
