Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District Explained

Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District
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Location:Meeting House and Aquetong Rds., between US 202 and Sugan Rd., Solebury Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.3622°N -75.0019°W
Architecture:Georgian, Federal
Added:July 30, 1987
Refnum:87001216

The Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

History and architectural features

This district emcompasses fifty-five contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and eleven contributing structures that are located along Meeting House Road and the upper branch of Aquetong Creek. This district, which overlaps with the Honey Hollow Watershed National Historic Landmark, also encompasses a dozen farmsteads composed of eighteenth and nineteenth-century farmhouses with their associated outbuildings. A number of the houses exhibit vernacular, Federal and Georgian-style details.

Architecturally notable buildings include the Solebury Meeting House (c. 1806) and the Federal style John Blackfan House (c. 1836).[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H089491_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Upper Aquetong Valley Historic District]. 2012-10-28. Judith Hayman Moore . Jeffrey L. Marshall . Gregory Ramsey . amp . PDF. March 1987.