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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.
1663 Bristol Pike: Bensalem Township: Now the Saint Katharine Drexel Shrine 116: Shaw Historic District: Shaw Historic District: December 17, 1979 : Bounded by S. Main, Ashland, Bridge, and S. Clinton 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.
Bristol Industrial Historic District is a national historic district located at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in a wholly industrial area of Bristol. It includes the Keystone Mill (1877, 1903), Star Mill (1880), Wilson & Fenimore Walpaper Factory (1882), and Peirce and William Planing Mill (1891).
The King George II Inn, located in Bristol, Pennsylvania, is believed to be the oldest continuously operated inn in the United States. [1] It was first established in 1681 as the Ferry House by Samuel Clift. [1] The inn was a main stopping point on the road from New York to Philadelphia. [2]
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St. James was the first church in Bristol [5]: 7 (the third-oldest town in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and Chester) and the only Episcopal church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for 119 years. Under the leadership of the Rev. George W. Ridgely (rector from 1830–1832), St. James helped establish mission churches at Hulmeville (Grace) and ...
US 13 was realigned to a new divided highway alignment of Bristol Pike between PA 413 in Bristol and Tullytown by 1950, having previously followed what is now Old Route 13, Pond Street, Farragut Avenue, Radcliffe Street, Main Street, and Fallsington Avenue between the two boroughs.