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Some valleys in Bucks County are so descriptive you’re drawn to them and can’t help admiring the setting. For others, you scratch your head: Where’s the valley? Such is the dichotomy between Pleasant Valley in Springfield Township in Upper Bucks and Oxford Valley in Lower Bucks. Their history remains quite interesting though suburban sprawl can spoil the view. Let me start in Upper Bucks. My family discovered Pleasant Valley after our daughter enrolled in Bethlehem’s Moravian College. To get there by car from Central Bucks, you take Route 611 north to its intersection with Route 412 in Ottsville. ....
We all have our hobbies. Mine is writing about history. I have come to know others. They’re passionate. Like Betty Davis of Wrightstown, who collects historic Bucks County postcards, and Neil Wood of Levittown, whose inspiration is railroad history. Lately I’ve been in touch with Chuck Denlinger of Downingtown, who reacted to my account of Bucks County’s George Scott who drove the famous John Bull locomotive on it’s last full run, passing through Bucks en route to Chicago as featured attraction of the 1893 world’s fair. The locomotive, built in England in 1831 and shipped to Philadelphia on a sailing ship, was one of the first steam engines to operate in the U.S. The Pennsylvania Railroad carefully maintained and preserved the engine in Bordentown, New Jersey. ....
We’d all be tongue-tied trying to pronounce it had Welsh pioneers gotten their way in 1723, back when William Penn’s Bucks County was being settled. ....
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According to my Webster’s, a tinker is “a person who can make all kinds of minor repairs; jack-of-all-trades.” Some call them “handymen.” I know several who are quite talented, from Hilltown in the upper end of Bucks County to Falls in the lower end. One taught me how to solder plumbing. Another how to properly do roofing. The term “tinker” traces back to Irish and Scottish Highland travelers, homeless drifters in 13th century Britain. They made a living as metalworkers, offering to fix pots and pans using molten solder to patch holes. That tradition expanded to this country to define traveling fix-it men. ....