Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Hamorton, PA

Hamorton is a historic village in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, located at the intersection of the old Baltimore Pike (U.S. Route 1) and Wilmington Road (Route 52).

The Hamorton Historic District, a village of brick, frame, and stone residences constructed between 1780 and 1930, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Hamorton's original plan was laid out in the 1830s as narrow rectangular lots along the Baltimore Pike, then called Main Street, and the layout can still be readily discerned today.

The village was established by Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, a Quaker physician and anti-slavery activist who co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society, making Hamorton a center of abolitionism in Chester County.

Hamorton Hall, opened in 1846, housed a boarding school for girls "irrespective of color" and served as a Hall of Free Discussion where speakers addressed slavery, temperance, and capital punishment.

A Free Produce Store operated in Hamorton selling only goods not produced by enslaved labor, part of the village's role in the Underground Railroad era near the Kennett and Longwood Progressive Friends meetings.

In the late 1920s Pierre S. du Pont built a "new Hamorton" of 18 houses, designed and built between 1928 and 1930 and rented cheaply to upper-level employees of neighboring Longwood Gardens.

Hamorton sits immediately west of Longwood Gardens, the internationally renowned display gardens du Pont developed in the 1920s, and just east of the Old Kennett Meeting, a center of Quakerism since 1710.

During the Revolutionary War, preliminary clashes of the Battle of the Brandywine occurred around the Anvil at Hamorton as British troops moved toward Chadds Ford.