For a more comprehensive history of Yardley, Pennsylvania, in historic Bucks County, check out the borough’s website, which promises to continue to add more content to its already extensive documentation of the various events bringing the city to where it is now as well as its listings of businesses, restaurants, entertainment venues, and possibilities when it comes to indoor and outdoor activities, at https://www.yardleyboro.com/home.

Its history page includes this: “Yardley was settled by William Yeardley (as the name was then spelled), a Quaker minister seeking religious freedom who emigrated to America from England with his wife, three sons and a servant in July 1682. Before leaving England, he made an agreement with William Penn to purchase a 519-acre tract for ten pounds sterling. He settled on Dolington Road and built  a log cabin and later a stone house called ‘Prospect Farm.’ The Yardley family occupied the land for more than 150 years. 

When a town plan was prepared in 1807 and several lots were laid out, Yardley was beginning its growth. Following the completion of the Bristol-New Hope section of the Delaware Canal in 1831, new commerce and trade poured into the town, then called ‘Yardleyville.’ Early industries included a spoke and handle factory, sawmill, felloe factory, plate and plaster mill, and two flour mills. The post office was established in 1828. In 1835, Yardley’s first covered bridge was built across the Delaware River at the foot of what is now Afton Avenue.

In 1876, the railroad opened its New York branch through Yardley and erected a station just south of the established village. To avoid confusion with Yardville, N.J., the railroad campaigned to shorten the name Yardleyville and in 1883 the Post Office adopted the name ‘Yardley.’”

Located just about 30 miles from Philadelphia and about 60 miles from New York City, because of the multiple transportation systems affording easy access to both cities, many residents live in Yardley but work in one of the two major metropolitan areas. This lifestyle choice allows them to avail themselves and their family members of a beautiful home environment and its accompanying top-notch infrastructure, including great public and private education choices, shopping, dining options, and health care facilities, to name a few.

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