“Once that happens, the owner can do whatever he/she wants, including demolishing the building,” Coffey said. However, homeowners have successfully petitioned to have their homes removed from the survey. Listed on the 1994 Historic Resources Survey of Haverford Township, the home is protected by the township’s Historic Preservation ordinance. Its textiles mills were involved in providing Civil War Union soldiers’ uniforms. These “mills are really important to our history,” said Brennan, noting the substantial role Haverford’s gunpowder mills played in the War of 1812. It was during this period that the lane “leading to the mill became a township road and was named Dickinson Mill Road, shortened today to Mill Road,” Brennan said. Leedom took over operations in 1827, purchasing the mills in 1844. The date for a small addition on the left isn’t known, while additions on the right, constructed around 17, also feature fieldstone, with gable end roofs, five windows and two additional chimneys.Ī large barn once stood where the driveway currently leads to Trinity Christian Church of Greater Philadelphia.Ĭoffey later identified the rustic gray house as the township’s 10th-oldest surviving residential property, which served for almost a century as home to a succession of local mill owners including Jonathan Miller, Samuel Leedom and George Dickinson. Reading from notes compiled by Historical Society President Irene Coffey, Kelly Brennan said the home’s oldest, center section, constructed from coursed rubble fieldstone, dates back to 1725. ![]() HAVERFORD > Members of the Haverford Township Historical Society called attention at the April 3 commissioners meeting to the historic importance of a property for sale at 570 Mill Road.Īlso known as Leedom Mansion, the 2.5 story, nine-room residence went on the market following recent death of its former owner.
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