More from Bucks County Wood rots, bricks crumble but stone is immortal. Stone in Bucks County. No temporary, throwaway McMansions.

Cross Keys Inn at the intersection of the Great Swamp Road and Easton Highway... ....survives, though the town has all but disappeared to Doylestown. The General Greene Inn in Buckingham before PennDOT removed it's front porch. The present day front of Bogart's Tavern or General Greene Inn The Golden Pheasant Inn along the Delaware Canal Part of the story of the death of a Doane boy began at the Gardenville Hotel.... ....the story ended at the Plumstead Friend's Meeting House Dyerstown located a mile north of Cross Keys and two miles north of Doylestown.. .....was the business enterprise of John Dyer. He was largely responsible for.. ....the Doylestown to Danboro Turnpike, now Old Easton Road...... ....his mill is now a restaurant..... ....continuing the entrepreneurship Dyer began. General Greene's Headquarter during The Crossing was in Upper Makefield. Washington's Headquarters during The Crossing Washington's Headquarters in Warwick PA, the Moland house. The Liberty Bell was housed in this Quakertown dwelling enroute to Allentown A barn near Del Val College which, with no maintenance, will soon pass on An old New Hope & Ivyland RR trestle made from area stone Despite the brute strength of a stone home, it is no match for time and weather The Arnold Bros post card of the Wycombe Mill Creek Mill in 1905..... ......which has changed very little as evidenced by this look in 2005 The town of Neshaminy on Easton Road was the location of the Doylestown.... ..to Willow Grove Trolley Powerhouse, it 1905 and 2006. Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church atop Buckingham Mtn... ...still holds 4 services a year with it's history tied to free slaves and t... ...Underground Railroad as slaves were harbored in nearby caves. The stone outhouse of the church. Indoor plumbing may be the best invention A wonderful old barn in Upper Makefield The homestead of artist Charles Coiner (1998-1989) near Mechanicsville. The building in the center of Mechanicsville, now a furniture store. Another stone home in the hamlet of Mechanicsville. A Mechanicsville farm near the hamlet center, A vista of two working farms in Solebury Township The Post Office in the village of Solebury A stone home in Solebury village..... ....which has colorful and interesting stonework. Spring Valley is another village near Doylestown which is near forgotten.... ..on today's busy Route 202, old Swede's Ford Road. A two story summer oven in Spring Valley. The old stone carriage house now houses today's vehicles. Well, there are some houses no one cared what they were made of. Mothball a stone house and keep the roof on it. It will last until renewal Even the sheds used to be made of stone, which is why we still see them Linford Craven's dreary winter look at the "handsome" Edison Bridge about 1907 The Edison Bridge was torn down, and now we are left with nothing. The county Poor House, which gave Almshouse road it's name near Edison The top rock on Heacock Mountain, nearly 1,000' in altitude. The top of Haycock in winter, not your average hike High Rocks in Ralph Stover State Park has a beauty which must be respected..... .....it is a playground to free style boulderers...... .....rock climbing enthusiasts.... ....200 feet below Kayakers enjoy the Tochickon Creek..... ....and hikers who come just to view the colors of fall..... .....and to look down on the valley from the top The Nockamixon Cliffs are an oddity just south of Kitnersville...... ....this trickling water has carved a stone staircase..... ...the cliffs are almost always in shadows creating an arctic plant zone. Winter ices the Nockamixon Cliff water and it works to reduce the cliffs The boulder field at Ringing Rocks Park, boulders ring when struck with hammers. A photostitch of the Ringing Rocks boulder field in winter A photostitch of the freezing falls at Ringing Rocks ....the force of nature has created an amphitheater in one part..... ....and rock ledges and formations in others. On to a look at Doylestown PA Irony The old Bucks County Prison aka Pine Street Hotel is now the Michener Art Center The painful postcard. The old Courthouse awaits demolision for the bowl. The new courthouse makes a bad backdrop for almost any nearby buildling Doylestown's famous photographer Linford Craven's studio is now a restaurant. Craven's views of Doylestown were made into penny postcards around 1900-15 Craven's look north on Court Street, with the classic Intelligencer building Craven's view in 2007. Some building survive, some are memories. Near 1905 Linford Craven's look north on Main Street, old Court Inn is center Craven's view north on Main Street in 2007. Craven's look from The Turk to Doylestown in 1905. Courthouse is left horizon. A wonderful old Brick residence with it's tower, find it in the Craven photo Looking up Church Street towards Doylestown Presbyterian Church Linford Craven's final resting spot at the Doylestown Presbyterian Church Doylestown Presbyterian Church, it's steeple is identifiable in many older photo The stonework of Doylestown Presbyterian Chuch, Doylestown Presbyterian is the resting place for Doylestown's favorite son... ....his concrete castle is known as the Mercer Museum and... ......houses the muses of Dr Henry Chapman Mercer. Mercer's first attempt at a roof on his castle can be viewed from inside..... .....an old fire engine hangs from the ceiling...... ....a collection of old turnpike signs and turning pikes in the museum. Henry Mercer's concrete mansion known as Font Hill Behind Font Hill, the "house in the woods" has suffered from the immature It was headquarter of the Doylestown Nature club, note the concrete roof The house which caused a Mercer family feud.... ...William Mercer razed the family homestead and built this.... .....brick mansion in it's place patterned after their Scottish roots.... .....and named it Aldie. The Doylestown Inn during the yearly Art Festival. The Doylestown Baptist Church on Main Street. The Civil War Museum, "home" of the 104th PA and their place in history Some of the old day advertising can still be found on the exterior walls More building adverts remain after decades For a time the Doylestown home of anthropologist Margaret Meade is not stone My favorite art gallery, Sabine Rose will soon be wrapped in stone here Many of the old stables in towns now house cars instead of their predecessor. A fabulous dwelling on Old Dublin Pike unchanged in 100 years The grave of a Bodine of the Grand Army of the Republic in the town cemetary