Historic Property
On his way from Philadelphia to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, on his horse, left on September 3rd, 1776, making his first stop at the White Horse. He paid 11 shillings for lodging, etc. He tipped the “horseler” 1 shilling, and made […]
William Trent wrote a letter to Richard Peters about marriage, business, and Indians. He stayed at the White Horse Inn on the night of July 21st, 1750, possibly along with John Potts. Trent, who also served with George Washington in […]
I haven’t found a copy of the actual handwritten notes by Captain Thomas Buchanan. Our Inn is west of Paoli. At the affair of Paoli, in the fall of 1777, I was sent forward to Gen. Smallwood, that lay at […]
Myrtle L. Berger Swanenberger, a poetess, lived on the property in the early 1920s, writing in 1923 the “Why the Cow Jumped Over the Moon”: