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Month: September 2018

The Year with No Summer

September 26, 2018 carllavo

You might think we just lived it but nothing compares to 1816 in Bucks. Seems like I’ve spent this past…

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Posted in: Warminster

The Quakertown choo choo

September 21, 2018 carllavo

The “Quick & Easy” fulfilled a 60-year-old quest in Upper Bucks County but then . . . The arrival of…

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Posted in: Durham Township, Uncategorized Filed under: Col. John Jameson, Cooks Creek, Durham Furnace and Mill, Funks Grove, Q&E, Quakers & Eastern Railroad, silver spike, Springtown, U.S. Steel

‘Ghost House’ on Gibson Road

September 13, 2018 carllavo

The story behind Bensalem’s Croydon Lodge built by a British army major in 1763. The first time I saw Croydon…

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Posted in: Bensalem Filed under: 60th Roval American Regiment of Foot, Battle of Princeton, Bristol, Continental soldiers, Croydon Lodge, French and Indian War, Gen. Lord Loundon, Major Thomas Barnsley, Newportville, Philadelphia, St. James Episcopal Church

Voyage to ‘Forbidden’ Island

September 4, 2018 carllavo

Voyage to ‘Forbidden’ Island Was there once an amusement park to rival Coney Island on storied Burlington Island in the…

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