Thursday, August 15, 2019
The object was to see historic properties without too much walking on a hot and muggy day. Some of the properties were large, so we did do some walking.
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Seems to be the season of woven nests of Hyphantria cunea/Fall Webworms |
The Concord Township (PA) Historical Society (1967) maintains several locations.
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The historical society's first acquisition was the Polecat Road House (before
1750) at 194 Polecat Rd, built to house two families, likely of mill workers |
Although restored without central partitions, there are two inner corner fireplaces that share a common chimney and two outer stairways for reaching the loft.
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Concord Township was founded in 1683 |
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Concord Township Hero Memorial (2004) at 675 Smithbridge Rd
honors all branches of the armed forces, law enforcement,
fire, rescue, and emergency medical services |
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Pierce-Willits House (1744 log cabin, west addition 1764, log cabin
replaced 1810) at 659 Smithbridge Rd, was purchased by
by Francis P Willits in 1885 and remained in his family
until 1975; Willits acquired mushroom spores from England and
began developing his mushroom business in 1892 |
The Pierce-Willits House is home to the Virginia Marion DeNenno History and Educational Center.
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Carriage House (c 1890) and connecting kitchen (c 1900); the second
floor of the carriage house was initially used to cultivate mushroom spores |
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Garage (by 1910, or c 1920) with a mounting block
at L front, used for mounting horses |
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Double-seater outhouse (c 1930s or 1940s at the Cloud-Vernon House
on Concord Rd; moved here in 2001); in the distance to the R is an icehouse
(originally from the Speakman property SE of Baltimore Pike and US-202) |
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Fagus sylvatica purpurea/Copper Beech Tree (likely
planted in 1810) is a Pennsylvania Champion Tree |
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The tree is in its senior years, and
is being treated for a canker disease (KSS) |
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Remains of a barn (1920) after a 1980 windstorm took down half of it |
Vague directions for Bush Hill: Palmer-Poole and Wilson Palmer at 40 Bethel Rd, where we found a Dog Park at Bush Hill Farm.
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Nearby was a burial plot for pets who died in a house fire
at the farmhouse of the former Bush Hill Farm |
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Pet grave marker (KSS) |
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Barn (late 1830s) of Wilson Palmer |
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Springhouse (late 1830s) of Wilson Palmer |
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Springhouse that belonged to the property
across Bethel Rd (KSS) |
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Formerly a horse farm with stalls and fenced corrals;
one was made into a dog park for small dogs and one for large |
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Dog water fountain |
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Palmer-Poole Barn (1791 by Joseph Palmer, 1870s rebuilt by
George Poole using the original foundation and joists) (8/18/2019) |
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Former Orthodox Friends Meeting House (1837 for a faction that
split with the Concord Friends, but later rejoined them) was also
used by the Concord Grange #1141 from 1920-1978; now
it is the Concord Township Senior Center (8/18/2019) |
6 comments:
Please specify the state explicitly; is this indeed Pennsylvania? I grew up nearby, in northern suburbs of Wilmington, Del., and also I fail to find Concord Township marker, on the firehouse grounds, in hmbd.org , on which site I am registered as a contributor. Yh
My apologies, this is in the state of Pennsylvania. The Concord Township marker, as far as I can determine, is at the following Google Maps coordinates: 39°52'03.3"N 75°30'43.0"W.
Aha, I think I figured out that hmbd.org is supposed to be hmdb.org, the historical marker database.
I stand corrected regarding the site name spelling.
Concord Township marker now on hmdb.org
The Polecat Road House sign is now in hmbd.org . I photographed the house, too.
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