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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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The Raid on Jenk’s Mill

August 21, 2018 carllavo

Recalling the “shock and awe” attack on Bucks by Torresdale soldiers in 1778. Lazy-day boating and fishing from a pier…

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Posted in: Middletown Filed under: Bird-in-Hand, British, cavalry, Fulling Mill Road, Gen. William Howe, george washington, Hessians, Jenk's Fulling Mill, Newtown Borough, Old Frame House Tavern, Torresdale, Valley Forge

The Passion of Cal

August 16, 2018 carllavo

Remembering the ‘Norman Rockwell’ of Bucks who refused to toot his own horn “Patsy Drew walked down the library steps…

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Posted in: Solebury Township Filed under: Bell Telephone News, Bucks County Traveler, Country Gentleman, Doylestown Historical Society, Farm Journal, George Yerkes, None Such Farm, Norman Rockwell, Pennsylvania Railroad, Sports Afield

That’s Unusual

August 10, 2018 carllavo

Bucks County has a long history of fables with a blush of truth . . . or not. Is it…

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Posted in: Morrisville Filed under: Battle of Waterloo, Bucks County Court, Joseph Bonaparte, Little Italy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Rushland, Second Street Pike, Underground Railroad, Wycombe

Outlaws Reconsidered

August 1, 2018 carllavo 1 Comment

Amid governmental oppression in Plumstead, the Doan brothers chose a path to infamy. There’s no better place to experience the…

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Posted in: Plumstead Township, Solebury Township Filed under: British, Carversville, Doan Gang, Eagle Spy, Fleecydale Road, Gen. William Howe, george washington, Hessians, Moses Doan, tax collectors, Wild Devil

Curb Appeal

July 26, 2018 carllavo

How to view 300 years of history in a single Bucks County village. Historic Fallsington is one of those rare…

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Posted in: Historic Fallsington Filed under: architecture, Craftsman, Early Colonial, Ecclectic, Federal, Georgian, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, Historic Fallsington Inc., Late Medieval, Quakers, Victorian

The park that never was

July 17, 2018 carllavo

It was supposed to be Bucks County’s grand central park – in Wrightstown. William Penn left many footprints that have…

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Posted in: Wrightstown Township Filed under: Durham Road, george washington, Hessians, Middletown Grange, Penn's Park, Walking Purchase, Wrightstown

The Rock Crackers

July 13, 2018 carllavo

Copper, iron, lead, gold and more enrich Bucks County’s mining history. My grandchildren enjoy collecting unusual rocks like their mom…

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Posted in: Doylestown Township, Edison Filed under: Bowman's Hill, Durham Furnace and Mill, Edison Quarry, Gold Mine, Joseph Bucciarelli Jr., Lake Galena, quarries, rattlesnake hill, Van Sciver Lake

Lost Horizons

July 4, 2018 carllavo

William Penn, the Lenape people and the betrayal he feared for them. It was the summer of 1683. William Penn,…

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Posted in: Bucks County, Uncategorized Filed under: Indian Walk Purchase, Lenape Indians

The Biddles of Bensalem

June 27, 2018 carllavo

One family’s patriotic legacy is recalled at fabulous Andalusia. Years ago I worked with a young newspaper reporter engaged to…

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Posted in: Andalusia Filed under: Andrew Jackson, Capt. Nicholas Biddle, Delaware River, Greek architecdture, Nicholas Biddle, Panic of 1837, Princeton, Second Bank of the United States, Thomas Ustick Walter, U.S. Capitol Dome, University of Pennsylvania

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