When Campbell’s Soup heiress Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton died in 2017, the fate of her expansive Strafford estate was anyone’s guess.
Would her elegant home, outbuildings, greenhouses and specimen plantings go to her heirs?
Or would they become a nature preserve? A suburban offshoot of the PA Horticultural Society? A small school, perhaps?
One thing was certain: the land – more than eight acres in a prized spot behind Wayne’s Eagle Village Shops – was valuable.