By 1718, Thomas Marshall Sr. (1694-1741) owned 250 acres and built a house over a spring on the western end of the land. In 1727, Marshall and his wife Hannah Mendenhall made the center section of the house. The original mansion house was described as a 36 x 22 feet, three-story brick home with an attached 15 sq. Ft. Brick kitchen. In 1802, the property consisted of a frame barn, granary, stone bark mill, and a tanyard. A bark mill is used to grind roots, branches, and barks of various trees to form a powder that assists in the production of leather goods in a tannery by yielding the necessary amount of tannin used for the tanning process.
Thomas Marshall III (1756-1844), who inherited this property from his father, died in 1844 and willed his estate to his two grandsons, Ellis Pusey Marshall and Thomas Marshall IV (1818-1880). Thomas Marshall IV sold his 75 acres to Ellis in 1847, and by 1850, Ellis P. Marshall and his wife Anna Bartram were living on 120 acres and the mansion house. Their farm was incredibly successful, and Ellis cultivated all 120 acres of land. In 1850, his farm produced 60 tons of hay, 700 bushels of corn, 200 bushels of oats, 200 bushels of wheat, 7 bushels of grass seed, 60 bushels of potatoes, and an orchard producing $10 worth of fruit. The farm was valued at $12,300.
Ellis P. Marshall’s daughter, Anna Marshall, married Ralph Marsh Harvey in 1868, and their son Bartram R. Harvey eventually purchased the Marshall property in the early 20th century.
The Marshall-Harvey Family descendants continued to farm and live there into the mid1900s.
The Thomas Marshall – Ellis Marshall House springhouse was removed in 1977 and restored and rebuilt on the Newlin Grist Mill property, where it can be seen today.
This property is now part of the Fellowship Church in the Industrial Park along Fellowship Drive.
Concord Township Historic Resource #134
