| | Washington's Crossing, many politicians owe those buried here an apology... | |
| | | ...three of the Continental graves overlooking the Delaware River | |
| | | Conversations around the county in 1776 may have looked a lot like this | |
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| | The private residence which was Washingon's Headquarters during The Crossing | |
| | | McConkey's Tavern where Washington had his Christmas meal before The Crossing | |
| | | The brilliant General Greene's headquarters were next door to Washington's | |
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| | Bowmans Tower from Thompson-Neely's property, where Washington's officers s... | |
| | | Origins of Princeton University are here at the Neshaminy-Warwick Church | |
| | | Warwick's Moland House, Washingtons Headquarters for two weeks of the war | |
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| | The historic Cuttalossa Farm | |
| | | The Cuttalossa Farm near the studio of Daniel Garber | |
| | | The frozen Cuttalossa waterfall on the property of the Cuttalossa Inn | |
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| | The look of small town America surrounds Doylestown's cemetary | |
| | | The obelisk dedicated to the 104th Pennsylvania in the center of Doylestown PA | |
| | | The $2,500 obelisk was erected in 1868. The 104th fought at Sumter and Fair Oaks | |
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| | A true American castle. Font Hill was the home of Dr. Henry Chapman Mercer. | |
| | | Font Hill was entirely built of concrete. No cameras are permitted inside. | |
| | | Dr Mercer's home for his muse's at what is now Mercer Museum was all concre... | |
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| | ....the window frames are concrete...... | |
| | | .....as is the roof...... | |
| | | ....interior columns and ceilings. Mercer's colorful tiles are imbedded in w... | |
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| | At the top of the 50 foot atrium are tools and items which built a nation... | |
| | | ..it is set up as an early Guggenheim museum as visitors climb around the atrium | |
| | | A prize of the museum. This Vampire killing kit. Pistol was included. | |
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| | Henry Mercer's Moravian Tile Works in Doylestown. An all Concrete building. | |
| | | The architecturally classic Daily Intelligencer building in Doylestown | |
| | | Now Paganini's restaurant this used to be Linford Craven's studio in 1905 | |
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| | The steeple of the Landmark building, once a church in Doylestown | |
| | | A Solebury farm near the Delaware River in the summer...... | |
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| | Rebuilt in 1852 this church on Buckingham Mountain...... | |
| | | .....was a stop on the Underground Railroad | |
| | | The Mechanicsville Post Office opened in 1830, and still in the same building | |
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| | Springhouses dot the landscape near the older buildings. | |
| | | The epitome of class, style and luxury, a brick outhouse. | |
| | | This is the ice house of the Samuel Moore property in Edison | |
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| | Coryell's Ferry,now New Hope, is an artisan colony. The church is painted pink | |
| | | The New Hope and Ivyland RR steam engine still pulls out of New Hope station | |
| | | Saint Philip's near New Hope dates back to the late 1700's | |
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| | In New Hope you must yield to the mules on the Delaware Canal | |
| | | The Parry Mansion on New Hope's Main Street has it's origins in the 1740s | |
| | | At the crossroads of colonial roads were taverns and inns like the Piper Inn. | |
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| | Those crossroads are now major intersections like Bogart's Tavern in Buckingham | |
| | | The Doylestown Inn began serving travelers in 1902, being a store prior to that | |
| | | The Pineville Tavern still serves travelers after 200 years. | |
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| | You can get a brew at the Gardenville Hotel, and learn the history of the Doa... | |
| | | which ends a halfmile away at the Plumstead Quaker cemetary | |
| | | Where much of Bucks County history occured is chronicled by roadsigns like this | |
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| | The Plumsteadville Inn on the old Easton Highway purveyors of fine dining. | |
| | | This Point Pleasant Inn lives as a tacky knick-knack shop. | |
| | | The abandoned 1740's Mountainside Inn on River Road in Point Pleasant | |
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| | Fortunately the Carversville Inn is not on a major crossroad of today. | |
| | | The bottom of Carversville Hill, where time has stood still for a century | |
| | | A moonlight walk with the dog after a foot of snow. | |
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| | The 1812 Bridge Point School in what is now Edison PA in the fall... | |
| | | .....and during a winter snow. | |
| | | Mills were built on many creeks. Stover's-Myers Mill in Ralph Stover State Park | |
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| | This view of the Wycombe Mill Creek Mill has not changed in 100 years | |
| | | Bridgetown Mill House between Newtown and Langhorne | |
| | | The Bridgetown Mill ruins. | |
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| | The Canal uses many locks and aqueducts, like this one in Point Pleasant | |
| | | Bucks County is known for the Delaware Canal, and mule path, all 31 miles | |
| | | The Delaware river to the left, the Lumberville footbridge and Delaware Canal | |
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| | In Lumberville the River Road bridge "34 miles to P" or Philadelphia | |
| | | This is the lumberyard in the town of Lumberville. | |
| | | A look toward Lumberville hills from the footbridge | |
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| | A double rainbow looking towards Bucks County from Jersey | |
| | | The pot of gold lies there in the river | |
| | | The high water mark from Hurricane Hazel in 1955. | |
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| | A private residence south of Lahaska built with stream washed stone | |
| | | A barn situated between the Delaware Canal and the river in Point Pleasant. | |
| | | A beautiful fieldstone barn in rugged Upper Bucks. | |
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| | Arched stone bridges like this one in Point Pleasant still handle traffic | |
| | | Bucks county still has 11 covered bridge just as here in Pine Run | |
| | | Mood's Covered bridge was no match for an illiterate trash truck driver...... | |
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| | .....but it was less of a match for 6 immature punk arsonists. It is now gone. | |
| | | Erwinna Covered Bridge on River Road in Upper Bucks | |
| | | The Loux Covered Bridge in northern Central Bucks. | |
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| | The isolated Frankenfield Covered Bridge | |
| | | The Cabin Run bridge near Stovers-Myers Mill | |
| | | From inside the Cabin Run Bridge. Bridges were covered to protect the structure | |
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| | The Van Sant bridge near Wasington Crossing Park and Bowman's tower | |
| | | The crosstrussing, and grafitti in side the Van Sant bridge | |
| | | The County steel bridges are starting to disappear, here is one in Blooming Glen | |
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| | Alan Fetterman http://www.alanfetterman.com | |
| | | Alan's studio in New Britain | |
| | | One of Alan's oils showing the Delaware River bank. | |
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| | Alan's Bucks County oils capture the natural beauty of the landscape | |
| | | His paintings can take you back to a simpler time...... | |
| | | ...or capture the short season of renewal and color. | |
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| | High Rocks is so difficult to photograph...... | |
| | | ....but so gorgeous to see with one's own eyes..... | |
| | | ...from Argillite Point more than 200 feet above the Tohickon Creek | |
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| | A look up toward the cliffs of High Rocks from the Tohickan Creek | |
| | | The Carversville cliffs on Fleecydale Road, rumored to have been a Doan's death | |
| | | Old farm roads wind between buildings as in Spring Valley | |
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| | A wooden silo from a time we'll never pass through again | |
| | | Nature is stronger than even the stone houses. Time and weather have strength | |
| | | A barn which is near it's death on Stoopville Road. | |
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| | Upper Bucks has some interesting rock formations and cascading streams. | |
| | | The 8 arch bridge over the Neshaminy Creek unseen by those on the new bridge | |
| | | The strength of the arch in the Bridge Valley 8 arch bridge | |
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| | Fall brings color to the sugar maples. | |
| | | Winter makes a visit every year. Nothing compares to a blanket of snow. | |
| | | The Slack family in Forest Grove grow some massive pumpkins. | |
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| | One of the wild turkeys which frequent my backyard. | |
| | | Little holds up this barn in the former village of Mozart. | |
| | | Prehistoric looking in flight, the Great Herrons fish all around the county. | |
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| | Haycock Mountain from the Pipersville area. | |
| | | The vista of Buckingham Mountain from Forest Grove, with a working farm to enjoy | |
| | | Two balloons rising over an Edison barn. | |
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| | Bowman's Tower is 5 miles away with no McMansions ruining the view | |
| | | An Upper Makefield farm with the New Jersey hills in the background. | |
| | | The ugly and hideous side of a McMansion at the foot of Bowman's Hill | |
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| | The proud working Center Farm, but McMansionville is near. | |
| | | An occurance in Doylestown | |
| | | Another fabulous stone house being strangled by the seasons until it falls | |
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