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Concordville is an unincorporated community in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 20 miles west-southwest of Philadelphia , at the junction of U.S. Routes 1 and 322 .
Concordville Historic District is a national historic district located at Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The district includes six contributing buildings in Concordville. Four of the buildings are the Newlin Tenant House, Concord Orthodox Meeting, Samuel Trimble House, and 1856 Brick House.
Concord Township is first mentioned in court records on June 27, 1683, when John Mendenhall was appointed constable of "Concord liberty". [5]The paper for the first currency printed by the Continental Congress was made at the Ivy Mills founded by Thomas Willcox and Thomas Brown.
The Newlin family arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683 and purchased 500 acres (2.0 km 2) in what was then Chester County. Mary Mendenhall Newlin received a grant of land (as a young married woman in 1685, just prior to the Revolution of 1688 ) in Chester County as well.
Concord Friends Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Old Concord Road in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.The meeting was first organized sometime before 1697, as the sixth Quaker meeting in what was then Chester County.
The Newlin Mill Complex, also referred to as The Newlin Grist Mill, is a water-powered gristmill on the west branch of Chester Creek near Concordville, Pennsylvania built in 1704 by Nathaniel and Mary Newlin and operated commercially until 1941.
The Ivy Mills Historic District is a national historic district located in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.It encompasses the ruins of a paper mill (erected 1829), a clerk's house (built circa 1830), and the Ivy Mills Mansion House (built 1837).
Handwrought, also known as Thomas Marshall House, is a historic home located at Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1805, and is a two- to three-story Eastern Pennsylvania Bank House. It is built of random fieldstone and has two entrances. Heat, electronic, and water were installed in the house after 1947. [2]