Crum Creek Barrens

Description

The Crum Creek Barrens were 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. This may be synonymous with the Paoli Barrens; 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. This area has been fully developed and the barrens destroyed, with the exception of a tiny remnant flora in the Clearview Road Barrens. A few relict flora were noted in the 1994 Chester County natural inventory but not in the 2015 update.