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This district includes twenty-nine contributing buildings that are located in a rural industrial area in the borough of New Hope. Notable buildings include the Heath House/Huffnagle-Hood Mansion and grist mill, the James Magill House (1790), a three-story stone textile mill, the Conrad Hartman Store (c. 1820), and small single-family dwellings for Black and unskilled laborers.
The Springdale Historic District is a national historic district that is located in the Springdale neighborhood of York in York County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Allegheny River between Plum and Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States Coordinates 40°32′42″N 79°45′50″W / 40.5450°N 79.7640°W / 40.5450; -79
Springdale Township is located at (40.55474 -79.78914 According to the United States Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km 2 ), of which 2.2 square miles (5.7 km 2 ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2 ), or 6.28%, is water.
Springdale originally got its name in the year 1820 by either Hannah Keene or her daughter, Frances. Before this, the town is believed to have been known as "Deertown." [5] Today, Springdale is a quiet residential community with a small downtown area and many small businesses. The first European settlers arrived in the area in the early 1800s.
The smaller parcel is located in Springdale Township. The western parcel falls within the East Branch Big Sewickley Creek watershed and Interstate 79 runs north/south approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the east. The eastern parcel falls within the Yutes Run watershed and Pennsylvania Route 28 passes just to the south.
The original four-room farmhouse was the birthplace and childhood home of Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring launched the modern environmentalist movement. The Carson family moved to this home in 1901 with plans to live in the home temporarily, and to sell lots from the 65-acre land to finance building a modern home.
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA), [4] the official public geospatial data clearinghouse for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania marked its 18th year in 2014. PASDA, which has grown from a small website offering 35 data sets in 1996 to the expansive user-centered data clearinghouse that it is today, has become a staple of the GIS community in Pennsylvania.