Solebury was organized in 1703
Solebury is fourteen thousand and seventy-three acres and the origin of the name is unknown. The great body of the inhabitants are descendants of English Friends. Solebury and
Buckingham were originally one township, but were divided about 1700, the first mention of Solebury is about 1702.
Among the original families: John Cutler, George White, William Kitchen, John Walton, Sypke Ankes, Renier Jansen, Paul Wolf, Thomas Story, Israel Pemberton, Robert Heath, Edmund and Henry Hartly, Thomas Carns, John Scarborough, Andrew J. Beaumont, Randall Blackshaw, James Harrison, William Beaks, William Croasdale, Nathan Ely.1
"heirs of Nathaniel Harding, sold the 500 acres to John Dawson, "yeoman, of Saulsbury," who appears to be the first actual settler on the tract."3
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Tower
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AQUETONG
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CARVERSVILLE
Originally Milton from 1800-1833
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LUMBERVILLE
- Black Bass Hotel
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CENTRE BRIDGE
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DELAWARE CANAL STATE PARK
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Solebury Township Office
3092 Sugan Rd
Solebury, PA 18963
Phone: (215)297-5656 |
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Excelsior Normal institute
Opened in Carversville in October 1859. Operating as a coeducational boarding school, it offered four courses of study. Room and board for the 35-week school year was $3.65 a week. Tuition ranged from 90 cents to $1.15 a week. The institute closed in 1874.
Intelligencer-Record February 22, 2002 |
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CENTRE HILL
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COTTAGEVILLE
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BURN BRIDLE HILL & FOREST |
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CANADA HILL
Canada Hill Cemetery
Route 202 Canada Hill Road
Solebury Township
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Godfrey Van Duren
..was the first innkeeper at Ruckman's in Solebury township, Bucks county."
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Stony Hill
Hamlet and hill on the road leading from New Hope to Glendale. 3 |
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Map of Soulbury 1703 |
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Cemeteries
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Carversville Cemetery
Aquetong Road
Carversville PA
(215) 297-5911
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Solebury Friends Meeting Graveyard
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
2680 Meetinghouse Road
New Hope PA 18938
(609) 397-8454
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania
N Sugan Rd & Meetinghouse Rd
New Hope PA
(215) 862-5866
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Churches of Solebury
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New Hope Methodist Church
15 South Main Street
New Hope PA 18938
Active from 1845-1936. Merged in 1970-1 with New Hope Presbyterian Church as New Hope United Methodist Church.
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Solebury United Methodist Church
2536A Aquetong Rd
New Hope, PA 18938-5736
Phone: 215.862.2657
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| Thompson Memorial Church Records
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Thompson Memorial Presbyterian Church Cemetery, New
Hope, Bucks Co., PA |
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Solebury issues commemorative tile - 300th anniversary occasion
1702-2002 - -Tiles are available at the township Municipal Building in Solebury and at Clemens Market in New Hope at a cost of $25.00 each. They depict the Solebury Village Stone School House, circa 1755, which sits at the intersection of Upper York and Sugan Roads.
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By FREDA R. SAVANA
The Intelligencer
In a township rich with history, it only seems
fitting that the Solebury Township Historical
Society would make its permanent home in one of
the community's oldest buildings.
The one-room schoolhouse, at the corner of Route
263 and Sugan Road, was built by the Quaker
Friends Meeting in 1757 and deeded to the public
school system in 1870.
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Solebury Vigilant Company
List of Officers and members of the SVC for the detection
of Horse Thieves and other villians.
President: Samuel Rose
Revised at the annual meeting held the first month 7th,
1860
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DIRECTORS |
| John D. Balderston |
| Joseph Thomas |
| John E. Kenderdine |
| Samuel G. Watson |
| Joseph Held |
| John Rose |
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| Lukens Thomas |
| Nathan Ely |
| Wm. Kitchen, Sr |
| Asher Paxson |
| Joseph Reading |
| Elijah Mathews. |
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PURSUERS |
| Oliver Balderston |
| John Richardson |
| Jesse Armitage |
| Aaron W. jones |
| Issiah Quinby |
| Charles Paxson |
| John S. Betts |
Intelligencer, December 27, 1859 |
| Charles white |
| Pearson good |
| S. Gillingham |
| Samuel Armitage |
| William J. Jewell |
| William Robinson |
| James Walton |
just a partial list... |
| Attleborough Protective Agency, Detection
of horse thieves and other villians. |
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