Cuttalossa Valley Historic District is a national historic district located in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 23 contributing buildings, 10 contributing sites, and 4 contributing structures along the narrow valley of Cuttalossa Creek. The district encompasses a variety of resources including dwellings, outbuildings, a mill, bridges, a fountain, and the remains of mills, dams, and mill races.
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Cuttalosa Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Lumberville Historic District is a national historic district located in Lumberville, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 85 contributing buildings in the riverfront and canal village of Lumberville. They include a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Lumberville is a village on the Delaware River in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located seven miles north of New Hope and is situated along River Road. Its ZIP Code is 18933.
The village was settled by Colonel George Wall, a Revolutionary War officer and Bucks County sheriff. He acquired 15 acres of land in 1775 and established two saw mills, a general store, and a school for surveyors. As such, it was originally named Wall's Saw Mills and Walls Landing. The mills changed hands frequently over the next century and were ultimately abandoned in the late 1800s.
The Black Bass Hotel was built in the early 1740s. It had many names over the years including Wall's Tavern, The Lumberville Hotel, Temple Bar, and The Rising Sun. It fell into decline in the late 19th century, until it was purchased in 1949 by Herbert Ward. He revived the business and ran it until his death 54 years later. The property was purchased by Jack Thompson, owner of the Thompson auto dealerships in Doylestown, in 2008 and underwent a major refurbishment in 2009. Thompson died in December 2020. His family continues to operate the inn and restaurant.
In 1835, a covered bridge was built across the Delaware River to Raven Rock, New Jersey. The river is approximately 800 feet wide at this point. One span of it was carried away in the flood of 1903. That section of the bridge was rebuilt as a steel span. The bridge was used until 1946. In 1949, a new bridge was built on the piers of the original, but it was built only for foot traffic so that the people of Lumberville could have access to the Pennsylvania Railroad commuter passenger service in Raven Rock. The rail service was discontinued in 1952.
The Delaware Canal runs along the river. Lumberville was the location of Lock #12, a set of locks to raise and lower the barges that travelled between Easton and Bristol, Pennsylvania. The lock house was washed away in the flood of 1955.
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Central Delaware Valley is a multi-state American Viticultural Area being the initial New Jersey appellation and the third in Pennsylvania joining the established Lake Erie and Lancaster Valley AVAs. It was established as the nation's 61st AVA on March 19, 1984 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Treasury after reviewing a petition submitted by Mr. James R. Williams, a grape grower in Frenchtown, New Jersey, on behalf of his vineyard business and local vintners, proposing a viticultural area along a segment of the Delaware River roughly between Trenton, New Jersey, and Easton, Pennsylvania, named "Central Delaware Valley". The viticultural area is located along the Delaware River in Central New Jersey's Hunterdon and Mercer counties and Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania. The term "Central Delaware Valley" commonly describes the portion of the Delaware River Valley landform between Trenton and the Easton/Philipsburg vicinity. The description corresponds generally to the southern and northern boundaries proposed in the petition.
The wine appellation encompasses 96,000 acres surrounding the Delaware River north of Philadelphia. Its southern boundary is near Titusville, New Jersey, just north of Trenton, and its northern border is near Musconetcong Mountain. A variety of Vitis vinifera and Vitis labrusca grape varieties can be grown in the area.
It has a hot-summer humid continental climate and the hardiness zone is mostly 7a and ranges from 6b to 7a.
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Solebury is an unincorporated community in Solebury Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Solebury is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 263, Sugan Road, and Phillips Mill Road.
A number of the buildings exhibit vernacular Federal and Georgian style details. Notable buildings include the Hard Times Tavern (c. 1750), Samuel Armitage House, Hill House, Watson Kenderline House, Cuttalossa Inn, and Laurelton. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.