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A number of furniture stores, hotel chaing, a major hospital, and office buildings are also located in the Oxford Valley Mall vicinity. Many homes have been constructed around the mall, the oldest being Langhorne Gardens, a branch of Levittown, Pennsylvania. Many newly constructed townhouses, condos, and large single-family homes have been built.
Levittown, Pennsylvania, was the second "Levittown" built by William J. Levitt, who is often credited as the creator of the modern American suburb. [7] [8] [9] To speed up construction, Levitt & Sons perfected a 26-step rationalized building method that was essentially an assembly line type of home building. [10]
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 squads, Morrisville and Levittown (1960), went on to win the World Series title.
Some people might like to live over a hole in the ground, aka a "basement", but Levitt and Sons had a more innovative idea -- radiant floor heat.
Falls Township is a suburban Philadelphia township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 34,300 at the 2010 census. Portions of Fairless Hills and Levittown, Pennsylvania, are located in the township.
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Photos capture the devastation following an explosion and fire at a home in the Snowball Gate section of Middletown on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. A Go-Fund-Me campaign is being set up for the family
The FHA, upon authorizing loans for the construction of Levittown, included racial covenants in each deed, making each Levittown a segregated community. [ 5 ] The first black family to buy one of the houses, the Myers, who bought a second-hand house in Pennsylvania's Levittown in 1957, experienced attacks on their house, and up to 500 people ...