{"id":2559,"date":"2026-07-14T19:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:41:41","slug":"westtown-may-ax-its-historical-commission-over-a-dispute-to-preserve-crebilly-farms-19th-century-inn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"Westtown may ax its historical commission over a dispute to preserve Crebilly Farm\u2019s 19th-century inn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><audio><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p>A schism between Westtown Township\u2019s elected officials and its historical commission reached a boiling point this week, with the municipality\u2019s supervisors planning to remove the commission over what several members say is a disagreement regarding a historic building that residents have fought for years to preserve. <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2557\">States reach $18 million settlement with 23and Me, with Pa. and N.J. getting more than $400,000 each<\/a><\/p><div><\/div><p>An email sent to each of the six commission members Monday alerted the volunteers that Westtown\u2019s three supervisors planned to take a vote at their meeting next week to remove them.<\/p><div><\/div><div><\/div><p>At the center of the conflict is the historic Darlington Inn, a 19th-century building that sits on a two-acre parcel at the corner of State Routes 202 and 926. The inn was  as part of a larger battle, led by the community, to preserve the 206-acre Crebilly Farm and fend off plans for residential redevelopment of the land.<\/p><div><\/div><p>But the township has regarded the inn, which is along the farm tract, as a temporary purchase that it would eventually auction or sell off to recoup the $200,000 in taxpayer funds used to buy it. It has put the officials at odds with its own historical commission, whose members have adamantly fought to preserve the inn. <\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cIt\u2019s really disheartening,\u201d said Pamela Boulos, who has served on the commission for roughly a decade. \u201cIt\u2019s really disheartening to know that this is the level that they\u2019re willing to go to.\u201d<\/p><div><\/div><p>In an email, shared with The Inquirer, that included the subject line \u201cCourtesy notice,\u201d Township Manager Mila Carter said she was providing \u201cadvance notice, as a courtesy,\u201d that the board\u2019s agenda for Monday\u2019s meeting \u201cwill include an item regarding your appointment to the Historical Commission.\u201d <\/p><div><\/div><div><\/div><p>\u201cThe Board will be considering a motion to remove your appointment from the Commission,\u201d she wrote. \u201cNo action has been taken at this time, and the matter will be discussed and considered during the public meeting.\u201d <\/p><div><\/div><p>She also notified members that the commission\u2019s planned Tuesday meeting had been canceled. <\/p><div><\/div><p>Members said they were told separately they could reapply. <\/p><div><\/div><p>The township did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.<\/p><div><\/div><div><\/div><p>The board\u2019s decision comes as tensions have been increasing between the commission and the elected officials. Commission members say the relationship has grown more hostile recently, particularly as it pertains to the Darlington Inn. <\/p><div><\/div><p>Last week, supervisors voted to rezone the property to commercial use, rather than agricultural or residential. The change would allow for \u201cfuture adaptive reuse\u201d of the inn, board members said previously. They said in April that the inn is currently not at \u201cits highest and best use\u201d by sitting vacant. <\/p><div><\/div><p>Commission members felt that the community had largely believed that the inn was to be preserved alongside Crebilly Farm when the township purchased it in 2024. When it became clear the intention was to offload the inn as a separate parcel, the commission began to raise awareness among residents at the possible loss of the building. Members said they wanted to see if there was appetite from private donors to purchase and maintain the property. <\/p><div><\/div><p>And the community, which has been willing to enter the fray to preserve the tract, started showing up to meetings.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=2555\">Philly port operator sues to block permit for proposed Delaware container terminal<\/a><\/p><div><\/div><div><\/div><p>\u201cMy belief is that some of the supervisors felt that this was untenable, this was an annoyance, this was interfering with what they wanted to accomplish,\u201d said Stephen Wahrhaftig, who has been on the commission for four years. \u201cA few of the people on the commission were viewed as the troublemakers and to get rid of only one or two people probably would have been bad optics \u2026 so the easy thing to do, as other townships have done, is just dissolve the whole thing, just get rid of it.\u201d<\/p><div><\/div><p>At its July 6 meeting, Patrick McDonough, chair of the historical commission, asked the township to consider easements on the land, to preserve the facade of the structure. They wanted to guard against \u201cWawa popping up there, or CVS,\u201d he said separately. <\/p><div><\/div><p>The board of supervisors declined to put any restrictions on the property. Jodi Nawrocki, chair of the board, said at the meeting nothing precluded them from adding such easements in the future. <\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cI think the way to use the building to the best use is through changing the zoning,\u201d she told McDonough. <\/p><div><\/div><div><\/div><p>McDonough felt that, in the process of the commission arguing their point, the board \u201cthought that we were overstepping our bounds as a historic commission.\u201d<\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cMy own township is willing to just auction this building off with no protection, no easements, and allow it to basically fall into the hands of what everybody else wants to do with it,\u201d McDonough said. \u201cI never thought that my own township would be the one I\u2019d be fighting against the hardest.\u201d<\/p><div><\/div><p>The commission, formed in 2013, was created to help develop community appreciation of the township\u2019s history and to preserve that history. The commission has created Westtown Day, an annual community day; has published a history book about the township; and hosts a litany of lectures. The volunteer-run body is appointed by the supervisors for three-year terms, and serves as an advisory committee to the board. <\/p><div><\/div><p>\u201cYou would think, being a municipality in one of the oldest counties in America, that historic preservation, especially here in our year of America 250 \u2026 would be top of mind and not something swept aside,\u201d Wahrhaftig said. \u201cBut I guess right now that\u2019s not the case.\u201d <\/p><div><\/div><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" alt=\"The Inquirer logo\" class=\"wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/faba80d67140212ba32240655442c529.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n        Inquirer Chester County\n      <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Want to get Inquirer Chester County straight to your inbox every week? 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