Buckingham Mountain (
Lenape: Pepacating
) is located in
Buckingham Township in Central
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the English ...
, in the United States. It is the second most elevated land in all of Bucks County at 520 feet.
History
On top of Buckingham Mountain stands the
Mount Gilead African Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1835, and rebuilt in 1852 out of stone. It was founded by runaway slaves and was considered to be one of the more prominent refuges for runaway slaves in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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Mountains of Pennsylvania
Gravity hills
Landforms of Bucks County, Pennsylvania