Call Number:

02

Repository:

Warwick Township Historical Society

Extent:

2.0 linear feet

Language:

English

Date:

1989

Creator:

Heritage Conservancy

Abstract:

Warwick Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania was founded by petition on February 13, 1733. Its first European settlers were primarily Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. A mainly rural area for most of its history, the township's population almost tripled in the late 20th century resulting in its suburbanization. The Bucks County Conservancy historic resource surveys for Warwick Township, 1989, consist of seven volumes of surveys documenting properties in Warwick Township. Apparently created in an attempt to establish Warwick Township as an historic district, surveys include the location, date of construction, condition, description, photographs, and other pertinent information about each property.

Warwick Township, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was founded by petition on February 13, 1733, and named after a small town in central England. The first European settlers were mostly Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. The township's size was diminished in 1819 when Doylestown Township was established. A mainly rural area for most of its history, the population of Warwick Township almost tripled in the late 20th century. By the beginning of the 21st century, the township was mostly suburban, with some rural and farming areas remaining. Over 300 acres of open space have been preserved by the Township, with additional acreage preserved under the County Open Space program.

Warwick is home to several unique and historic places, including two sites that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Eight Arch Bridge (1803), the last remaining eight-arch bridge in Pennsylvania, and the Moland House, a Revolutionary War Historic site.

"Based in Bucks County, PA, Heritage Conservancy [formerly the Bucks County Conservancy] is an accredited not-for-profit conservation organization that specializes in open space preservation, planning for sustainable communities, natural resource protection, property stewardship, historic preservation, adaptive reuse of existing structures, wildlife habitat restoration and biodiversity." (Heritage Conservancy)

Bibliography:

Warwick Township. "About Us." Accessed December 20, 2012. http://www.warwick-bucks.org/about.htm

Quoted text from Heritage Conservancy. "Who We Are." Accessed December 21, 2012. http://www.heritageconservancy.org/who-we-are/

This collection consists of seven volumes of Bucks County Conservancy historic resource surveys of properties in Warwick Township. Apparently created in an attempt to establish the township as an historic district, fieldworkers used Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) survey forms to document historic properties in 1989. The collection is organized by site location. On the forms fieldworkers provided the location, date of construction, condition, description, photographs, and other pertinent information about each property.