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From Bridgeton to Bensalem, here are 8 spots to swim in Bucks County buckscountycouriertimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from buckscountycouriertimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A couple of friends suggested I look into a few stories from different sections of our historic county. Sally Sondesky of the Bensalem Historical Society offered up the legend of a tiger that terrorized the Torresdale Manor section of Bensalem in 1879. Fletcher Walls of the Doylestown Historical Society sent me information on a pigeon farm like no other in New Britain in 1925. First, the tiger tale. Newspaper accounts described a man by the name of Hartranft asleep in his home along the Pennsylvania Railroad near the village of Torresdale in Northeast Philadelphia when a loud growl awakened him. It was dawn on Oct. 24, 1879. Going outside, he was shocked to see a 310-pound Bengal tiger on the tracks. “Naturally he sought cover at once for to cope unarmed with a tiger was a matter not be relished,” reported the Harrisburg Daily Independent. ....
Sometimes there are tangents of local history that lead to major events. Take the case of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln and a bitter rift between their wives that could have affected what happened at Ford’s Theater in Washington at the end of the Civil War. Grant’s link to Bucks is hands-on. About the time of the war, the U.S. Army general visited his card-playing buddy and wealthy Philadelphia merchant Adolph Borie at his “The Dell” mansion overlooking the Delaware River in Andalusia. There, Ulysses demonstrated his carpentry prowess by building a log cabin doll house for the neighboring Anderson sisters. As to Lincoln, he was en route to his presidential inauguration in Washington on March 4, 1861, when he made a train stop to address an enthusiastic crowd in Bristol. ....
Visit to Andalusia mansion in Bensalem a trip back in time buckscountycouriertimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from buckscountycouriertimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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