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General Stores and Mold Loft Building-Harriman Yard of the Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation, also known as Manhattan Soap Company Warehouse, is a historic warehouse located at Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1917, and is a three-story, rectangular reinforced concrete building.
US 19 south (Peach Street) – Edinboro, Meadville, Pittsburgh: Northern terminus of US 19: 26.459: 42.582: PA 505 south (State Street) to I-90 – Waterford, Union City: Northern terminus of PA 505: 26.953: 43.377: PA 8 south (Parade Street) Northern terminus of PA 8, 2 blocks north of PA 97 northern terminus: 28.333: 45.598: PA 290 (Bayfront ...
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [ 1 ] There are 323 properties and districts listed on the Register in Chester County, including 7 National Historic Landmarks .
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).
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.
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The Bristol housing project—the largest single housing project undertaken by the EFC—created an entire new township in Bristol which was dubbed "Harriman" after the proprietor of the MSC. Construction began in March 1918 and the first buildings were completed by July, although workers at first declined to occupy them due to high rents.
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.