Bucks County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 646,538, making it the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the English county of Buckinghamshire. The county is part of the Southeast Pennsylvania region of the state.
Quakertown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of 2020, it had a population of 9,359. The borough is 15 miles (24 km) south of Allentown and Bethlehem and 40 miles (64 km) north of Philadelphia, making Quakertown a border town of both the Delaware Valley and Lehigh Valley metropolitan areas.
Richlandtown is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,260 at the 2020 census.
Hatfield is a borough in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 3,290 at the time of the 2010 census. It is part of the North Penn Valley region that is centered around the borough of Lansdale. The borough is surrounded by Hatfield Township.
Pennsylvania Route 663 (PA 663) is a 22.13-mile-long (35.61 km) state highway in Montgomery and Bucks counties in southeast Pennsylvania. Its southern terminus is at PA 100 in the borough of Pottstown and its northern terminus is at PA 309 and PA 313 in the borough of Quakertown, where the road continues eastward as PA 313. Along the way, PA 663 also passes through the borough of Pennsburg. It is called John Fries Highway between Pennsburg and Quakertown. It has an interchange with Interstate 476 at exit 44 west of Quakertown. The route was assigned in 1930, and it has had several realignments since its commissioning, including two major ones.
Gregory Ellis Buttle is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions, earning consensus All-American honors in 1975. In 2005, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame.
Quakertown is an unincorporated community located within Franklin Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was once known as Fairview. The area was settled by Quakers from Burlington County, who organized a meeting house here in 1733. The Quakertown Historic District was listed on the state and national registers of historic places in 1990.
Samuel Carey Bradshaw was an Opposition Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Quakertown Community School District is a public school district located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Quakertown Community School District covers 72 square miles and serves the boroughs of Quakertown, Richlandtown, and Trumbauersville; as well as Haycock, Milford, and Richland Townships. Quakertown's mascot is the panther.
St. Luke's University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit network of 15 campuses and over 300 outpatient sites. The health network is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The Quakertown Passenger and Freight Station is a historic train station and freight depot located at Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The two buildings were designed by Wilson Bros. & Company in 1889 and built by Cramp and Co. for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in 1902. The passenger station is constructed of dark Rockhill granite and Indiana limestone and is in a Late Victorian style. It is 1+1⁄2 stories tall and measures 25 feet wide by 97 feet 6 inches, long. It has a hipped roof with an eight-foot overhang. The freight station is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular stone block building measuring 128 by 30 feet. Also on the property is a large crane that was used for freight movement. The Quakertown station had passenger rail service along the Bethlehem Line to Bethlehem and Philadelphia until July 27, 1981, when SEPTA ended service on all its intercity diesel-powered lines. SEPTA still owns the line and leases it to the East Penn Railroad. Other towns, stations, and landmarks on the Bethlehem Line are Perkasie, Perkasie Tunnel, and Perkasie station.
Cramp & Co. was a building company in Philadelphia. Many of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It worked sometimes in conjunction with architect Henry deCourcy Richards.
Quakertown is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Quakertown is located on U.S. Route 9 Business, southwest of Lewes.
Thomas P. Bossert is an American lawyer and former Homeland Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump. He is an ABC News Homeland Security analyst.
Jan Shepard is an American retired actress.
Karen Bliss was born on December 19, 1963, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She is a former American cyclist, four-time U.S. points race champion and a three-time U.S. criterium champion. On November 2, 2019, in Davis California, she was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in the category Modern Road & Track Competitor.
Applebachsville is a populated place in Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, located 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northeast of Richlandtown.
Brick Tavern is a populated place in Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Pennridge–Quakertown Thanksgiving Day Football Classic is an American high school football rivalry played annually on Thanksgiving morning between the Rams of Pennridge High School and the Panthers of Quakertown Community High School. The rivalry has been played uninterrupted every Thanksgiving morning since the inaugural meeting in Quakertown on November 27, 1930, with the exception of the 1989 game which was postponed two days due to a snowstorm. Quakertown High School hosts the contest on even years while Pennridge High School hosts on odd years. Kickoff time is traditionally set at 10:15 am EST.
Jeffery Lee Rodenberger is a former American football fullback and tight end who played for the Philadelphia/Baltimore Stars and New Orleans Saints between 1983 and 1987.
