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Even after Solly Brothers ended the business relationship and the Academy reclaimed most of the orchards for athletic fields and abandoned the rest, David and Edith remained. Edith passed away in 1992. David Powell died in 1999, having lived most of…

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A.H. Powell continued to operate the farm, joined by his son David when he became old enough. During the depression years, the Academy ended their subsidies to the farm and they ran the operation together as A.H. Powell and Son until Hal’s death. …

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In 1913, plans were made to accommodate a New Church farming family from Maryland on that farm, to enable the family’s children to attend Church schools. Sylvanus Alonso Powell, agreed to rent the farm for a one-year trial from the Academy while his…

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This view of the house from the west shows (just in foreground on right) the "stone shed" where tools and small machinery were often kept. This structure still stands.

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Academy Farmhouse from the east, with wagon/carriage shed and chicken house.
In addition to the house and barn, there were several other outbuildings on the property. One was this wagon/carriage shed (on right). The family chickens lived in the left…

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In the end of the 19th century, a group of Philadelphians who were members of the Swedenborgian Church (the New Church) moved their church community to the “country” near the area known as Bethayres. Industrialist John Pitcairn purchased more than…

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Benjamin Powell (son of A.H. Powell) standing in front of the chicken house.

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David Powell bought out his father’s share of the business partnership from the estate (that went in total to his mother), took over the lease of the house and property from the Academy and shared the house with his mother until her death. David…

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The springhouse stood beside the small stream, which was fed from a different spring several hundred feet to the west. The spring house was divided into a wet side and a dry side. Ironically, the dry side was closest to the little stream and the…
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