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Bucks County, Pennsylvania · Outdoors

Ford Road at Newportville Road

The Horse Thieves at Ford Road

Wooded margins and homes beside the crossing of Ford Road and Newportville Road in Bristol Township.

History & local legend

The crossing of Ford and Newportville roads near Neshaminy Creek in Bucks County has a tradition about two horse thieves. In the local story, they were hanged near the creek during the Revolutionary War and later appeared together around the crossroads.

A separate Newportville Road account described a woman wearing a white dress with a blue sash near a house.

Sources

  1. Phantom Paranormal, Sunbury entry, Newportville Road woman and precise Ford Road crossroads tradition
  2. U.S. Census Bureau, Ford Road and Newportville Road intersection in Bucks County
  3. Pennsylvania Genealogy, Barnsley’s Ford and the historic Neshaminy Creek neighborhood
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Visiting

Public crossroads.

Image credit

Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and NV5 Geospatial, Cycle 2 orthophotography, via Penn State PASDA · License