Ridley Creek State Park

The district is a rural landscape of farm complexes and a mill village within a 2400-acre area in Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, settled by English Quakers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its buildings are mostly stone farmhouses, barns, springhouses and outbuildings, many dating to the 18th century. The Worrall House, begun in 1683, is named as the oldest building in the district, and the Lower Rawle farmhouse, built in three sections around 1715 to 1770, retains almost all of its original woodwork. The Sycamore Mills complex grew around a grist mill established in 1718, with later saw, plaster and rolling mills, and a nail factory that was washed away in the flood of 1843. Abraham Regester operated a profitable chair factory on Gradyville Road from 1801 to 1873. The farms also record changing agricultural practices, from subsistence farming to cash-crop and gentleman estate operations over nearly three centuries.