This was the home of Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall that was built in 1840 and is located just a short distance from what was the slave state of Delaware. The Mendenhalls were ardent abolitionists. There was a concealed room in the carriage house, adjacent to their home, which was used to conceal the fugitive slaves they were protecting. They broke away from their Quaker group and were founding members of the Society of Progressive Friends.
John G. Whittier, an antislavery activist, wrote to the Mendenhalls in 1881, “Whenever and wherever the cause of freedom needed aid and countenance you were sure to be found with the noble band of Chester County men and women to whose mental culture, moral stamina, and generous self-sacrifice I can bear emphatic testimony.”
The property is a private residence and is not open to the public.