Peace of My Heart- New Hope PA.

by Robyn King

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Peace of My Heart- New Hope PA.

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Robyn King

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Photograph - Photography

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Peace of My Heart-New Hope PA. is a recent addition to my Street and Abstract series.New Hope is located along the route of the Old York Road, the former main highway between Philadelphia and New York City. It was generally regarded as the halfway point, where travelers would stay overnight and be ferried across the river the next morning. Though this route is largely obsolete, the section of U.S. Route 202 that passes just north of town still bears the name York Road. The original route is now known as Bridge St. (PA 179).
During these early days, the town was known as Coryell's Ferry, after the owner of the ferry business. The current name came into use following a large fire in 1790 that burned down several mills in the area, their reconstruction was considered a "new hope" for the area.
The night prior to his famous crossing of the Delaware several miles to the south, George Washington is said to have lodged in New Hope. He did destroy the ferry so the British could not follow him and after the battles of Trenton and Princeton, when British troops were sweeping the area for the American forces, when they rang for the ferry and there was no response, they assumed the town were sympathetic to the Colonial forces and shelled the town.
Historic former residents include James A. Michener and Aaron Burr.
The North Pennsylvania Railroad finished construction of their New Hope Branch in 1891, later being taken over by the Reading Railroad. Passenger service to Philadelphia's Reading Terminal as well as all other passenger activity was terminated in 1952 from Hatboro, also the end for electrified track, and New Hope. Between 1952 and 1966, only freight trains were seen entering and leaving New Hope, mostly to deliver paper pulp for the Union Camp Paper Corp. and to deliver sand and gravel to James D. Morrissey Materials Co., a cement company and a division of James D. Morrissey, Inc. In 1966, the New Hope & Ivyland was formed and bought 16 miles of trackage spanning from New Hope southwest to Ivyland. Scenic tourist excursions started the same year. Freight service to New Hope was then handled by the New Hope & Ivyland. In 1972, SEPTA, who by then took over Reading Railroad's passenger operations, extended the electrified route to Warminster and reinstated passenger service to the town. Freight service to James D. Morrissey Materials Co. ceased sometime in the late 1970s and to Union Camp Paper Corp. sometime in the mid 1990s. Today, the New Hope & Ivyland continues to provide scenic tourist excursion passenger trains between New Hope and nearby Lahaska, PA.
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