The landscape of Cecil Township features houses from myriad architectural styles and of all sizes. Chic contemporary mega mansions at Southpointe contrast sharply with a number of remaining vestiges such as the Simpson House (featured in Philip Simpson's accompanying YouTube video, Architecture and Construction of the Central Passage-style House).
Additionally, Nancy Marshall offers a fascinating look at Cecil Township's Tomahawk Claim, a historic log house her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John (Jack) Sherman Campbell, he the founder and president of Pittsburgh-based Keystone Adjustment Company, had acquired in 1928. At that time, they restored the abandoned and deteriorating building. In 1952, ownership of the property was transferred to Ms. Marshall's parents, Dr. and Mrs. James Covode Campbell. Ms. Marshall, who inherited the property in the mid-1990s, recounts the day in 1964 when a vehicle with California license plates pulled into her family's driveway. A woman emerged from the car in tears and announced that her grandfather had been born on the Tomahawk Claim. The lady's father, Daniel Hastings, had traced his family's roots to Cecil Township and had drawn a map for his daughter and her husband and son to find the log structure that "he considered the family homestead." The woman's father, Charles Hastings Sr., subsequently sent a letter and history of the area, including previously unknown information about the log house's history, to Dr. Campbell. That information was critical to earning the home a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
