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Brick House Farm

Brick House Farm, which dates to the early 1700s, is one of Edgmont Township?s oldest homesteads. Established by the Yarnall family in 1702 on an original land grant from William Penn, the farmhouse was once a "public house," or tavern, where a Revolutionary War hero was captured by the British. The stately house is faced with local stone on one side and red brick on the other, and retains much of its early charm. The interior has many original features, including a large fireplace and fine woodwork.With its beams and wood trim, it?s obvious that the basement was once a tavern. As a thriving tavern, Brick House Farms was a main navigational landmark along what was formerly known as Edgmont Great Road. The property name itself was deceiving. In colonial times, travelers passing between West Chester and points west referred to the two-story tavern as Trick House Farms because its unusual brick-andstone combination creates a different appearance from either direction, which apparently confused, or ?tricked,? travelers who used the building as a reference point. In 1777, Persifor Frazer, an officer in George Washington?s Continental Army, was captured here by the British after the Battle of Brandywine. Frazer, who lived in nearby Thornbury Township, was scouting the British Army and staying at the Brick House Tavern when the British came and arrested him. Frazer?s brother escaped through a window. President Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the house in the 1950s, when U.S. District J