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Quakertown. NRHP reference No. 110002000 [1] Added to NRHP. April 20, 2011. The Quakertown Historic District is a historic district which includes most of Quakertown, Pennsylvania. It encompasses, 386 acres and 2,197 contributing buildings. [2]
History and architectural features. Built in 1772 as the first permanent residence in Quakertown, this historic structure is a two-story, 15 feet (4.6 meters) by fifteen-foot building with one room per floor. It was built using native fieldstone and has a half gambrel roof. It represents a simple colonial Quaker style of design.
August 23, 1990. The Quaker Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at the intersection of Quakertown Road and White Bridge Road in the Quakertown section of Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. In 1733, Quaker settlers acquired four acres of land here and built a log house for their first meeting house.
The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902. The passenger station is constructed of dark Rockhill ...
August 19, 2024 at 7:59 AM. A developer has proposed building 104 new homes in Richland Township beside a superfund site. Better Living Homes proposed a townhouse development on about 54 acres at ...
Quakertown is an unincorporated community located within Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. [3] It was once known as Fairview. [1][4] The area was settled by Quakers from Burlington County, who organized a meeting house here in 1733. [4] The Quakertown Historic District was listed on the state and national registers of historic ...
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. [3] The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.
This meeting house was replaced by the present meeting house in 1816. Much of West Jersey was settled by Quakers who established congregations and founded towns throughout colonial-era New Jersey, including the eponymous Quakertown in 1744. Colonial-era meeting houses built in New Jersey include: