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Bucks County| County in southeastern Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, bordered by the Delaware River; area 1,580 sq km/610 sq mi; population (1990) 541,200. Its capital is Doylestown. Containing many affluent Philadelphia suburbs and exurbs, it has experienced rapid growth in recent decades. The artists' colony of New Hope and the planned community of Levittown are here. |
| The county was formerly inhabited by Delaware American Indians. Its towns were founded by English Quakers and its farms settled by German Mennonites in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| Grasso Holdings is currenlty developing the Shops at Valley Square in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and 1601 Vine Street, a 45-story mixed-use residential, hotel and retail tower, anchored by a Whole Foods Market in Center City Philadelphia. Stan Berenstain, who co-created the Berenstain Bears with his wife, Jan, died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 2005, at eighty-two. Earning an MFA in poetry from Vermont College and named 1990 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, as well as winner of the First Prize in Water-Stone's 1999 Jane Kenyon Poetry Contest, Goldfinch And Memory, is the debut publication of Mary Coolidge Costs poetry and will aptly serve to bring her impressive work to the attention of a national readership. |