Few can rival Bucks County's beautiful landscapes, or its history
Sixteen reasons for enduring fame: Few can rival Bucks County's beautiful landscapes, or its history
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Sixteen reasons for enduring fame: Few can rival Bucks County's beautiful landscapes, or its history
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 awak...