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A Quaker settlement soon grew near the ferry, and in 1697 residents petitioned the Provincial Council to establish the community as the third town in the Pennsylvania Colony. The Bristol Friends Meetinghouse, built in 1711-1714 and partially reconstructed in 1728, is still standing and represents this era of the town's history.
Bristol is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Center City in Philadelphia opposite Burlington, New Jersey, on the Delaware River. Bristol was settled in 1681 and first incorporated in 1720.
Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [ a ] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [ 3 ] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as ...
The Bristol Historical & Preservation Society is holding its House Tour 2024 on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour 12 private houses in historic Bristol, spanning 300 years of ...
House Oldest English-built house in Pennsylvania; only extant building known to have been visited by William Penn: Hop Angel Brauhaus: Philadelphia, Fox Chase: 1683 Restaurant German-American fare; built in 1683 and a restaurant since the mid-20th century; [1] formerly, the Old Brauhaus, the Blue Ox Brauhaus, and the Blue Ox Bistro [2] Pont ...
St Nicholas Church, Whitchurch St Bernadette's Catholic Church, Whitchurch. The ecclesiastical parish includes both the civil parish in Somerset and the suburb in Bristol. [9] The parish church is in the village in Somerset, and is dedicated to St Nicholas. St. Augustine's Church on Whitchurch Lane was opened in 1972 but closed in 2007.
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The Dorrance Mansion is a historic house built in 1862–63, located at 300 Radcliffe St., Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River in the Bristol Historic District. The house represents the lavish life of Bristol's early Victorian industrialists.