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St. James Episcopal Church, designed by Samuel Sloan.. Bristol's first European settler, Samuel Clift, operated a ferry across the Delaware River starting in 1681.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.
Roughly bounded by Fickes Ln., Oliver St., Front St., Little Buffalo Run, Bloomfield Av. and Sixth St., Newport, Pennsylvania and Oliver Township, Pennsylvania Coordinates 40°28′39″N 77°7′58″W / 40.47750°N 77.13278°W / 40.47750; -77
The Harriman Historic District is located in the northern section of Bristol, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) residential area with 109 buildings, mostly houses, and the local secondary school. By 1921, production at the shipyard had declined due to a postwar shipbuilding slump.
St. Stanislaus Institute, also known as St. Stanislaus Orphanage and Holy Child Church, is a historic former Roman Catholic orphanage complex located at 141 Old Newport Street in Newport Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania within the Diocese of Scranton.
The attorney’s office said it had executed search warrants at two area massage parlors: GL Massage and Li’s Asian Massage, both located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Carlisle is located about 25 ...
The clock tower, which was built in 1911 and is 168 feet (51 m) tall, was the subject of a 2017 painting by Jean-Marc Dubus, an immigrant from Nice, France, and current resident of Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The painting is on display at the Centre for the Arts in Bristol. Other buildings in the complex range from one to seven stories tall.
The former Pennsylvania Railroad depot in Newport, alongside PA 34. Newport was originally known as Reider's Ferry—later Reidersville—as it was the site of an early ferry on the Juniata River operated by Paul Jr., Daniel, and John Reider until 1851. The trio had also originally laid down 54 plots and several streets.
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.