Research has indicated an interior room was used to harbor runaway slaves on a route from Meadville to Lake Erie during the nineteenth century. Jesse Coover, who built home, spent numerous hours in the cupola watching for bounty hunters that were on the trail for runaway slaves.

     Legend claims on a cold, snowy night, you can still smell Jesse's cigar in the hidden stairway that leads to his lookout post.

     The current three story barn covers 6,400 square feet, and stand s 60 feet tall. I t was erected in the 1890's from hand hewn hemlock beams notched together with wooden pins. The stone foundation was built from field stone found on the property.

     During the farming era the barn housed up to 50 head of cattle and horses, stored 10,000 bushels of potatoes, 20,000 bales of hay and straw, and 3,000 bushels of grain, along with all the machinery, equipment, tools, harness, and wagons.

     In 1921 Peter and Helen Biebel bought the farm from Fred. W, Coover, the eldest son of Jesse Coover. Edward Biebel was born in the house in 1925. He and Maryann, his wife of 50 years, raised ten children on the Mound Grove Farm. The couple still resides in the home today.