 In 1816, he donated a piece of land for the first school in the Back Mountain.The school was a one-room log cabin on the site of the current Back Mountain Memorial Library on Huntsville Road.Philip also set aside land for a public burying ground “on the hill near the pine grove just south of Dallas Village (on the road to Huntsville).” Philip also designated a plot of land for his family’s graves, visible from Overbrook Road.