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Glenolden
History
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The twenty-one acre property of Glenolden was originally owned by
Swedish settlers then given to Luke Nethermark, who was the son of an early
settler. Nethermark eventually died in 1755. Thomas Shipley bought the
property and added 43 acres and a grist and saw mill in 1774. He left the
property to his daughter Ann Shipley, who married John Jones. He sold the
house, grist and saw mills to Caleb Phipps of Chester County, who eventually
passed the property to his son, Elisha Phipps in 1808. In 1812, Halliday
Jackson, who lived in what is today Sharon Hill, bought the sixty-three acre
mill property. He rented the mill to Ephraim Inskeep. In 1828, Inskeep
bought the mill for himself for eleven thousand dollars. The Grist Mill was
popular with New Jersey farmers.
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