Paoli Barrens

Description

The Paoli Barrens was part of a larger and presumably once continuous barrens habitat known in older literature as the "serpentine ridge" north of West Chester, extending from East Goshen east-northeast across Willistown and just into Easttown Townships. Francis W. Pennell's 1912 paper places them to the south of Daylesford Abbey, but a c. 1900 account by William J. Serrill places the "Paoli Pine Barrens" about 1.5 miles SW of Paoli station, on the headwaters of Crum Creek. They may not be distinguishable from the Crum Creek Barrens. This area has been fully developed and the barrens destroyed.