Built in 1846-47 adjacent to Byberry Friends Meeting, Byberry Hall served as a meeting place created by renowned African American abolitionist Robert Purvis and others to facilitate public discussion of slavery and other social issues. Many famous abolitionists, including James and Lucretia Mott and William Lloyd Garrison, spoke there. Purvis's farm estate across Byberry Road was a regular station on the Underground Railroad, and Purvis estimated that he helped over 9,000 people escape.
