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Levittown is a census-designated place (CDP) and planned community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area.The population was 52,699 at the 2020 census, down from 52,983 at the 2010 census.
The FHA included racial covenants in each deed when authorizing Levitttown loans, making each Levittown a segregated community. [5] However this did not affect who the houses were resold to. In 1957, William and Daisy Myers bought a second-hand house at 43 Deepgreen Lane in Pennsylvania's Levittown. William was a World War II army veteran and ...
The county has a considerable history of producing Little League baseball contenders. Since its inception in 1947, four of the seven Pennsylvania teams to compete in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania have come from Bucks County: Morrisville , Levittown American (1960 and 1961), and Council Rock-Newtown . Two of these ...
Daisy D. Myers (February 10, 1925 – December 5, 2011) was an African-American woman who lived with her family in Levittown, Pennsylvania, reportedly designed to be an all-white town, beginning in 1957.
The Levitts went on to plan and build another community of more than 17,000 homes in Levittown, Pennsylvania, which saw its first residents in 1952. [19] Willingboro, New Jersey, was built as a Levittown in 1958, and bears several Levittown-specific street names such as Levitt Parkway (renamed Veterans Parkway on November 1, 2022).
The building firm, Levitt & Sons, headed by Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, built four planned communities called "Levittown", in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey (now Willingboro Township), and Puerto Rico; the Levittown in New York was the first.
Middletown police and fire officials are investigating an explosion and fire in the Snowball Gate section of Levittown on Saturday night that has left a family of five homeless.. The Bucks County ...
Phineas Pemberton House, also known as the Bolton Mansion, is a historic home located in Bristol Township, Levittown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It consists of four connected structures built between 1687 and 1790. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]