Houses and shops once lined the road across from the mill at Walnford, including two of the six known tenant houses in the small community formed by the people who lived and worked there. In the 1700s and 1800s, millers, craftsmen, farm laborers, domestic servants, and their families made up a working population that varied in size and ethnic composition. First developed around a mill in the 1730s by Allentown merchant Samuel Rodgers, the property was advertised for sale on March 17, 1744, in the New York Weekly Post-Boy as including a large two-story brick house for two families, with a kitchen, barn, stable, and cooper’s shop. A brick tenant house was built about 1740. Another sale notice, published on March 26, 1772, in the Pennsylvania Gazette, offered a frame tenement and four other tenements suitable for a miller, cooper, fuller, and blacksmith and their families, along with workshops and a coal house; this advertisement drew the attention of Philadelphia merchant Richard Waln, who bought the mill village and named it Walnford. The houses were later rented to families who worked elsewhere, and in the 1930s the Tomlins lived there. The two tenant houses were destroyed by fire in 1969, and archaeological investigations later confirmed the locations of their buried foundations, revealing an otherwise hidden but important part of Walnford’s history.