Reprint of v. 3 of the 1905 ed. published by Lewis Pub. Co., New York under title: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time.

Bucks County was an original county in William Penn's newly formed Pennsylvania province and has carried the weight of history ever since. Join author Jennifer Rogers as she recounts the lesser-known history of Bucks County. 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.

Excerpt from The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time Labor of love, than of gain, to the author. It was undertaken from a desire to preserve interesting facts, connected with its settle ment and history, that in a few years would have been lost forever; and no reasonable compensation would reward us for the seven yc-ars' labor bestowed upon it. We labored under many ditliculties. Its story had never been written, and the material, in a great measure, had to be first gathered in isolated facts and then woven into the thread of history. This was the most difficult part of our task. In most cases individuals and families gave up their papers for ex amination, which proved of great assistance. With the lapse of years the material grow upon our hands beyond our anticipations, and we could have written a larger work, but are content to give the result of our labors in a volume not too large for convenient use. Our greatest diflieulty was in collecting matter relating to the set tlement and early history of the German townships, because they were less in the habit of preserving family and personal records. We consulted the most reliable records and authorities to be reached, and are satisfied it contains as few errors as could reason ably be expected in a work of the kind. As a rule we have given the original spelling of the names of both persons and places, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.