Personal Stories of Bucks County, Pennsylvania

This page was created for others to share their own personal accounts of Bucks County. Contact David Hanauer by e-mail if you are interested in participating.

	Linda Musgrave I am a descedent of the Beans family of Bucks County and have much information on "Indian Springs farm" that had been in the Beans family since Matthew Beans' time, until my mother's cousin Warren Beans,sold it in 1927. (Mechanicsville Road and Indian Springs Rd., Bucks County). It is registered with the Pennsylvania Historical Society (and has been crowded out by "new" homes all around it!). Also Benjamin Barnes (employee of Dr. Mercer) was my mother's first cousin and I have a news paper article on him and the pottery that you might find interesting. Read More...
	Judy G. Martin When I was a little girl in the mid-1940's I lived with my familiy-- mother, father and brother--on a dairy farm in Perkasie. It was located around Bedministerville. My dad was the caretaker-farmer and my mother the housekeeper and gardener. My brother and I played and attended school. The farm was owned by Ted Steele, at various times an orchestra leader for the Stork Club in New York City, for the Chesterfield Supper Club on NBC radio, and an emcee for an afternoon Teen Bandstand on WOR-TV in New York. He had been a bandleader and conductor for many famous singers in the forties including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima and Jo Stafford. Read More...
	Chuck Rudy Like my parents, I've never lived outside of Bucks County. We were close when, soon after my new bride and I were married, we moved to Sellersville to take an apartment. I was fortunate to grow up when Central Bucks County was still wide open. My time as a young teen was spent working on the Paul G Myers farm across the street. We were up early and in bed early and never had time to just "hang out" in town. On the rare occasions we needed something in Doylestown we'd ride our bikes the 3 miles up Cold Spring Creamery Road, we'd usually see 4 or 5 cars on the trip. Read More...
	Al Hillmantel Yes, I was there and it wasn't yesterday, it was 65 years ago. The years I spent at Center School were between the years 1941 and 1949 and I spent all eight grades in that little one room school. It was located on Center School Road in Bedminster Township, Pennsylvania. The school was on a parcel of land adjoining my parent's farm. This meant I only had to walk across three fields and I was there. This was good and then again not so good. It was hard to make up an excuse as to why you were late if it only took about five minutes to get there no matter how slow you walked. Read More...
	Lynn Maust I moved from Doylestown almost 9 years ago...the 2000 scare...went West to a more rural area. Sorry to have left in many ways....Central Bucks is the loveliest spot in PA as far as I'm concerned....wonderful to take your photo tour....will soon venture back with my 8 year old grandson who expresses interest in seeing the area...can't wait!... by the way...I have a photo collection of development destructions of farms that I took a number of years ago...probably 10...out on Cold Spring Creamery Rd...also my mother and step father bought Carversville Mill house in 1970 and lived there til moving to Nova Scotia in '79...Bucks was getting too congested even then for them! Read More...
	Judy McElderry My recollections are of the way of life in the mid 1960's thru the '70's, when the only "development" nearby was off Rt. 313 north of Fonthill, done for the returning soldiers from WW II, to house their families. When I first came to Doylestown in 1965 the town was a sleepy little village compared to my childhood home in Bryn Mawr, PA. My husband was an animal husbandry student at the college, and I found myself in a completely different world. As well as the college farm, I had the privilege of visiting at several working farms in the area, all now covered by developments, the old farmhouses now hidden from view. Read More...
	Polly Scully-Crawshaw Everyone has heard of the blizzard of 1888 but most Bucks County old timers recall the winter of 1958. At the time I was living in Neshaminy Cliffs, a little enclave of cottages off Swamp Road 2 miles east of 232, and caring for my elderly grandfather, John Hooley. On Friday, February 14th the radio called for snow flurries so I decided to put off grocery shopping for a few days. It started to snow on Saturday morning and never stopped "flurrying" until late Monday. Mother came over Saturday and stayed. The last person into the community was my friend Roger who fought his way in around noon on Sunday. Read More...
	Bob Crosby Living in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, as a young boy was not too much unlike Huck Finn. Days seemed forever, and the land just stretched as far as the eye could see. We'd head out just after breakfast on our bikes, and return home for dinner. Parents never worried; we were together in mass, and always at someone's home for lunch depending on whose turn it was that particular afternoon. The bunch of us, guys and gals, would collect lizards down at the pond, walk upstream, the soles of our barefeet cool on the boulders and rocks. Read More...