Deery Family Homestead

Stone farm complex in Vincent Township, Chester County, built in stages by the Deery family from the 1760s. George Deery is reported to have settled here in 1760, and the 1798 glass tax recorded 215 acres with a stone dwelling, kitchen, wagon house and spring house, plus two log houses. The main house was built in two parts, the first about 18 by 18 feet, later enlarged to the size recorded in the tax. Outbuildings include a large stone bank barn with an 1819 inscription in its mortar, a wagon shed, a bake oven and vaulted root cellars. Local tradition, as recorded, holds that the farm lay on the road from Valley Forge to the Yellow Springs hospital, and that the family sheltered Continental soldiers in their house and barn. The property is significant as an example of a self-sustaining family compound in the region, with its outbuildings arranged to function independently of the parent farm.