Kimberton Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Kimberton is a village district at the crossroads of Kimberton and Hare's Hill roads in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with buildings dating from about 1770 to the early twentieth century. Its earliest structures include the 1768 Black Bear Tavern, the stone French Creek Boarding School begun around 1787, and the 1796 Chrisman Mill, all built of local stone in a vernacular manner. Emmor Kimber, a Quaker educator who arrived in 1817, ran the boarding school, owned much of the crossroads, operated a general store, and served as the local postmaster, which gave the village its name. The district is significant for its record of local commerce, including mills, taverns, and stagecoach service. After the Pickering Valley Railroad reached the village in 1871, its eastern end grew around a station and milk receiving station. The village retains excellent integrity, with few demolitions over the past century and a predominantly domestic scale.