Chadds Ford Historical Society

The Chadds Ford Historical Society preserves, maintains, and interprets several early 18th century historic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places: John Chads House, Barns-Brinton House, and the Springhouse/ Birmingham Schoolhouse No. 1 where we educate school children, adults, and our community through hands-on history.

All Chadds Ford Historical Society School programs are built to reinforce Pennsylvania’s Standards Aligned System (SAS) to coincide with your curriculum. (Delaware State Standards for Social Studies are also addressed as well as Common Core). Our school programs are renowned for being hands-on and guided by program specialists in historic dress. Each program utilizes our historic sites, artifacts from our objects collection, and engage students in a unique hands-on crafting experience to teach new skills and encourage students to learn by doing.