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Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Bucks County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Doylestown
Year Organized: 1682
Square Miles: 608
Court House:

55 East Court Street
County Courthouse
Doylestown, PA 18901-4327

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Bucks is named for Buckinghamshire in England, where the Penns had lived for generations.

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

One of the three original counties created by William Penn in November 1682. Bucks is named for Buckinghamshire in England, where the Penns had lived for generations. Doylestown replaced Newtown as the county seat in 1812 and was incorporated as a borough on April 16, 1838. It was named for William Doyle, an innkeeper.

Most original settlers were Quakers, and William Penn's estate was at Pennsbury Manor. During the religious Great Awakening the log college at Neshaminy educated clergymen. In 1776–1777, Washington used Newtown and Keiths as bases for his Trenton and Princeton campaigns, crossing the Delaware on Christmas at McConkey's Ferry and in 1778 his army camped at Doylestown. Bristol was the first county seat, succeeded by Newton and then Doylestown. Fries' Rebellion occurred in 1798 in opposition to a federal tax on windows. Bucks has a long tradition of high quality farming, including selling seeds that are used all across the nation. Dairying became strong toward the end of the nineteenth century. Wealthy estates have acquired much of the farming area; 22 percent of the land is currently farmland. Textiles, pottery, and decorative tile making flourished. The U. S. Steel Company built a plant after World War II, and then the population increased sharply. Many found homes in the new housing complex of Levittown. Explorer Zebulon Pike, writer Pearl Buck, and War of 1812 general Jacob Brown were all from Bucks. There were Underground Railroad stations in four towns.
 

 

Neighboring Counties:
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Cities and Towns:
- Bedminster township  
- Bensalem township  
- Bristol borough Incorporated Area
- Buckingham township  
- Chalfont borough Incorporated Area
- Doylestown (County Seat) borough Incorporated Area
- Dublin borough Incorporated Area
- Durham township  
- East Rockhill township  
- Falls township  
- Ferndale borough Incorporated Area
- Haycock township  
- Hilltown township  
- Hulmeville borough Incorporated Area
- Ivyland borough Incorporated Area
- Langhorne borough Incorporated Area
- Langhorne Manor borough Incorporated Area
- Lower Makefield township  
- Lower Southampton township  
- Mechanicsville borough Incorporated Area
- Middletown borough Incorporated Area
- Morrisville borough Incorporated Area
- New Britain borough Incorporated Area
- New Hope borough Incorporated Area
- Newtown borough Incorporated Area
- Nockamixon township  
- Penndel borough Incorporated Area
- Perkasie borough Incorporated Area
- Philadelphia city Incorporated Area
- Plumstead township  
- Quakertown borough Incorporated Area
- Richlandtown borough Incorporated Area
- Riegelsville borough Incorporated Area
- Sellersville borough Incorporated Area
- Silverdale borough Incorporated Area
- Solebury township  
- Southampton township  
- Trumbauersville borough Incorporated Area
- Tullytown borough Incorporated Area
- Upper Makefield township  
- Upper Southampton township  
- Warminster township  
- Warrington township  
- Warwick township  
- West Rockhill township  
- Wrightstown township  
- Yardley borough Incorporated Area
County Resources:

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

 

 

 

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