Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania
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Gallows Hill, Pennsylvania | |
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Unincorporated community | |
610 and 484 | |
GNIS feature ID | 1173597[1] |
Designated | 1925[2] |
Gallows Hill is an unincorporated community in Springfield Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. Gallows Hill is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Route 412 and Stony Garden Road/Gallows Hill Road.[3]
Etymology
The community's name was derived from an 18th-century traveler who hanged himself from a tree.[4]
References
- ^ "Gallows Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "PHMC Historical Markers Search" (Searchable database). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
- ISBN 0-87530-774-4.
- ^ Davis, William Watts Hart (1905). History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 38.