Hidden History of Bucks County.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Jennifer

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bucks County (Pa.)--History.

Bucks County (Pa.).

Bucks County (Pa.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.)

Place of Publication:

The History Press

Summary:

Bucks County was an original county in William Penn's newly formed Pennsylvania province and has carried the weight of history ever since. Industrial power in the region expanded in the late 1700s as Irish laborers sacrificed life and limb to construct a section of the Pennsylvania Canal and the Durham Furnace. In 1921, a gruesome train wreck claimed the lives of twenty-seven people, forever leaving its tragic mark on the busy rail lines emerging from Philadelphia. Raised a Quaker in Doylestown, James A. Michener went from local English teacher to Pulitzer Prize-winning author, leaving his philanthropic mark at the art museum named for him. Join author Jennifer Rogers as she recounts the lesser-known history of Bucks County.

Contents:

The founding of Bucks County

William Penn and the Lenni-Lenapes

Buck county

Prominent families and homesteads

The Grundy family

The Thompson family: John and Robert Thompson

The Cravens

Henry Mercer

John Lacey

John Fitch

William Watts Hart Davis

James A. Michener

The Delaware division of the Pennsylvania Canal and the construction of the Durham Furnace

Irish laborers

The Dunham Furnace

Abolition and the Underground Railroad in Bucks County

The Purvis brothers

Harriet Tubman

Local shops along the Underground Railroad : Warminster ; New Hope ; Yardley ; Telford ; Northampton Township

Runaway slaves of Bucks County : Benjamin Jones ; Mount Gilead Community Church ; Basil Dorsey

From Civil War to Dentistry: one Bucks County soldier's account and life after the war

Civil War diary

From private to doctor

The American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army in Bucks County and the Battle of Crooked Billet

The Revolutionary War

Washington crosses the Delaware

General Washington's headquarters : Summerseat, Morrisville ; John Harris House ; John Moland House ; The Keith House

The Battle of Crooked Billet

Inns and Taverns: serving up ales and history

The Red Lion Inn

The Ferry Inn

Dilworth's Tavern

General Greene Inn

Piper Tavern

The Spinnerstown Hotel

McConkey Ferry Inn and Washington Crossing Inn

Black Bass Hotel

Temperance House

McCoole's at the Red Lion Inn

The Logan Inn

The horrific train wreck that rocked Bucks County to its core

The wreck

The aftermath

Doan outlaws: the Plumstead cowboys

The Doan gang in Bucks County

Historic cemeteries and mass graves in Bucks County

Pemberton Graveyard and Watson Graveyard

Yardley Borough unmarked cemetery

Cross Keys cemetery

Washington Crossing unknown graves

Slate Hill cemetery

Buckingham Friends Meeting cemetery

Warminster Township mass graves

Upper Southampton Old School Meeting House.

ISBN:

9781439666135

143966613X