New Hope, PA & Frenchtown, NJ (9/16/2020)

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 (continued)

We continued north along the Delaware River to New Hope, PA.

Roadside America: Boomer the Dino Dog (2003, by Dana Stewart)

Many restaurants have you pull up their menu
on your smartphone with a QR symbol

Aquetong Creek Dam

Bucks County Playhouse in a former grist mill (1790) at the dam

Parry Mansion (1784, for Benjamin Parry, one of the founders
of New Hope) was occupied by four generations of Parry
descendants until the property was sold to the
New Hope Historical Society in 1966

Civil War Memorial on Cannon Square
(actually a triangle) with a 9-inch Dahlgren gun
(cast in 1855) from the USS Minnesota that
saw action between the USS Monitor and
the CSS Virginia (Merrimack) in 1862

Restaurant in converted church (c 1895)

Roadside America: Creeper Gallery was closed

Continued north but on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River to Frenchtown.

The National Hotel (1833 as a stagecoach stop and brothel,
rebuilt in 1850, saved from neglect in 2009) was
our accomodation for the night

Eclectic furnishings in our room

Yes, four different lamps!

View from our third floor room (no elevator!)

Lenape Mural (2011, by Adrienne Crombie & Don Dalen)
depicts the sustainable lifestyle of the early residents of the area

Nishisackawick Creek

Ha! A home backed up to the creek looks
historic but was built in 1985

Address lamp post for 12 Bridge Street/
Worman-Apgar House

Worman-Apgar House (1869, in Italianate style)
with a unique fence

Frenchtown Inn (1838)

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail

One of the Miles of Mules project (2003), celebrating
the mules that pulled canal barges, wears his mask

49 Kingwood Avenue/Rittenhouse Summer Retreat
(1878, in French Second Empire style)

53 Kingwood Avenue/Widow McCrea House (1854)

30 Kingwood Avenue (1880, in Italianate style?)

S C Worman Memorial Fountain (1917) (KSS)

Next: Easton, PA.