The Joseph Palmer-William Palmer House is a stone Federal farmhouse built c. 1809 along what is now Smithbridge Road. The house was built on land part of an original 500 acre land grant belonging to John Haselgrove in 1683. The land passed through various hands until Asher Palmer sold 15 acres and a blacksmith shop to his son Joseph Palmer in 1800. The blacksmith shop was located on the west side of the present driveway according to present day archaeological digs.
Joseph Palmer sold the property to his son William Palmer in 1843. Palmer built an addition to the front of the house in 1845. By 1850, the property consisted of the stone house, a frame barn with stables, a stone blacksmith shop, an ice house, milk house, and a double-geared saw mill with circular saws. There was an orchard with apple, cherry, pear, and peach trees and a grape vineyard. The farm was valued at $3,000.
This property is a private residence and not open to the public.
Concord Township Historic Resource #46
