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Cox-Phillips-Mitchell Agricultural Complex

In 1726, William and Catherine Cox built a Flemish bond brick house named “Ocasson” on 350 acres of land acquired from Letitia Penn. William Phillips and his heirs owned the farm from 1766-1830 and added a bank barn by 1770. From 1830-1856 Quaker farmer and abolitionist Jacob Heald owned the property. Farmer and businessman John […]