Hartsville, Pennsylvania

Hartsville is a populated place situated at the crossroads of Bristol Road and the Old York Road straddling Warminster and Warwick Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.[2] It has an estimated elevation of 427 feet (130 m) above sea level. It is served by the Warminster Post Office ZIP code 18974.

Hartsville, Pennsylvania
Populated place
Hartsville Fire Company 9/11 Memorial
Hartsville
Location of Hartsville in Pennsylvania
Hartsville
Hartsville (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°13′42″N 75°05′42″W
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountyBucks
Elevation
[1]
249 ft (76 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
18974
Area code(s)215, 267, and 445
FIPS code42-32984
GNIS feature ID1192587

Hartsville was named for Colonel William Hart who served during the Revolutionary War. He relocated to the village in the late 1700s and opened a new inn which he called "The Sign of the Hart."[3][4]

Hartville was the name of the station stop on the Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad, later renamed Ivyland.[5]

A Presbyterian church was located in Hartsville from 1839 until 1939, when it merged with another church and the Hartsville building was torn down.[6][7] The church had its own cemetery.[8]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection includes an 1843 cut-paper silhouette portrait of a Hartsville resident identified as Mrs. James P. Wilson.[9]

The Hartsville Fire Company is site of a 9/11 Memorial.[10][11]

In 2019, water from private wells in the community was reportedly unsafe to drink because of contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals, possibly from toxic waste from closed military facilities nearby.[12]

References
  1. "Feature Detail Report for: Hartsville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Hartsville (in Bucks County, PA) Populated Place Profile". PA Hometown Locator. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
  3. The Villages of Bucks County: A Guidebook, Bucks County Planning Commission, 1987
  4. Battle, J. H. History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: Including an Account of Its Original Exploration. ISBN 9780871524096.
  5. "Bucks County Pennsylvania Railroad Stations". www.west2k.com. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  6. "Nehaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Hartsville, Pennsylvania". Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985). 60 (2): 144. 1982. ISSN 0022-3883. JSTOR 23328530.
  7. Gemmill, Helen Hartman (1976). A history of Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church, 1726-1976: in commemoration of its 250th anniversary. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified. OCLC 5247623.
  8. "Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Cemetery Hartsville, Pennsylvania". Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985). 60 (2): 160. 1982. ISSN 0022-3883. JSTOR 23328532.
  9. "Mrs. James P. Wilson of Hartsville, Pennsylvania. 1843. Auguste Edouart French". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  10. "Hartsville Fire Company secures World Trade Center beam for 9/11 memorial". thereporteronline. 2011-04-24. Retrieved 2021-11-10.
  11. "Hartsville Fire Company secures World Trade Center beam for 9/11 memorial". 2011-04-24. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  12. McDaniel, Justine (June 28, 2019). "This Pa. neighborhood with tainted wells has been on bottled water for three years. No end is in sight". www.inquirer.com. Retrieved 2021-11-10.


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