Centre Bridge, Pennsylvania (6479377503)

Centre Bridge is an unincorporated community on the

Delaware River The Delaware River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. From the meeting of its branches in Hancock (village), New York, Hancock, New York, the river flows for along the borders of N ...

Solebury Township Solebury Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 8,709 at the 2020 census. History Migrating English Quakers began to settle down in an area of Buckingham Township. Around 1702, this area was in ...

, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the crossroads of River Road ( PA 32) and Upper York Road ( PA 263), it lies north of New Hope. The spelling of the name of the village is traditional. Centre Bridge was originally called Reading's Ferry, after the proprietor of the original ferry at this point"Solebury Township Bucks County Pennsylvania, a Short History of the Township and a Report on Township Officers and Affairs", by John Richardson, Offset Service Company, Philadelphia, 1958. on the Old York Road between Philadelphia and

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. In 1814, a covered wooden toll bridge was built there. In 1923, lightning struck the bridge and the resulting fire destroyed the bridge. The fire was depicted in a famous painting by

Edward Willis Redfield Edward Willis Redfield (December 18, 1869 – October 19, 1965) was an American Impressionist landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his impressionist scenes of the New Hope ar ...

, who lived in a farm house just north of the bridge. The current

Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge The Centre Bridge–Stockton Bridge is a free bridge over the Delaware River owned and operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission. The bridge connects CR 523 and NJ 29 in Stockton, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey to PA 263 ...

was completed in 1926. The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal runs along the river between Centre Bridge and the river. For more than two hundred years, there has been an inn at the crossroads. It has burned several times; the last time it burned to the ground, in the early 1960s, the centuries-old stone walls tumbled. This time, it was rebuilt by more modern although less picturesque standards.

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