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New Hope is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 2,528 at the 2010 census. The borough lies on the west bank of the Delaware River at its confluence with Auqetong Creek. The two-lane New Hope – Lambertville Bridge carries automobile and foot traffic across the Delaware to Lambertville, New Jersey on the east bank. New Hope's primary industry is tourism. In 2015, Coldwell Banker reported that New Hope has the (most expensive real estate market in Pennsylvania ) and the (86th most expensive real estate market in the United States ). 〔https://www.coldwellbanker.com/hlr/2015/PA ''Home Listing Report 2015'', Coldwell Banker]〕 == History == New Hope is located along the route of the Old York Road, the former main highway between Philadelphia and New York City. It was generally regarded as the halfway point, where travelers would stay overnight and be ferried across the river the next morning. Though this route is largely obsolete, the section of U.S. Route 202 that passes just north of town still bears the name York Road. The original route is now known as Bridge St. (PA 179). During these early days, the town was known as Coryell's Ferry, after the owner of the ferry business. The current name came into use following a large fire in 1790 that burned down several mills in the area—their reconstruction was considered a "new hope" for the area. The night prior to his famous crossing of the Delaware several miles to the south, George Washington is said to have lodged in New Hope. He did destroy the ferry so the British could not follow him and after the battles of Trenton and Princeton, when British troops were sweeping the area for the American forces, when they rang for the ferry and there was no response, they assumed the town were sympathetic to the Colonial forces and shelled the town. Several of the older structures in the town still boast of having unexploded British ordnance lodged in their roofbeams. Historic former residents include James A. Michener and Aaron Burr. The North Pennsylvania Railroad finished construction of their New Hope Branch in 1891, later being taken over by the Reading Railroad. Passenger service to Philadelphia's Reading Terminal as well as all other passenger activity was terminated in 1952 from Hatboro, also the end for electrified track, and New Hope. Between 1952 and 1966, only freight trains were seen entering and leaving New Hope, mostly to deliver paper pulp for the Union Camp Paper Corp. and to deliver sand and gravel to James D. Morrissey Materials Co., a cement company and a division of James D. Morrissey, Inc. In 1966, the New Hope & Ivyland was formed and bought 16 miles of trackage spanning from New Hope southwest to Ivyland. Scenic tourist excursions started the same year. Freight service to New Hope was then handled by the New Hope & Ivyland. In 1972, SEPTA, who by then took over Reading Railroad's passenger operations, extended the electrified route to Warminster and reinstated passenger service to the town. Freight service to James D. Morrissey Materials Co. ceased sometime in the late 1970s and to Union Camp Paper Corp. sometime in the early 1990s. Today, the New Hope & Ivyland continues to provide scenic tourist excursion passenger trains between New Hope and nearby Lahaska, PA. In 1983, NBC network anchorwoman Jessica Savitch and her boyfriend drowned after their car overturned into the Delaware Canal. The canal passes by Odette's Restaurant, where the couple had dined on a rainy evening when visibility was poor and warning signs were easily missed. In 2004 and 2006, New Hope was the victim of flooding when the Delaware River overflowed its banks. On both occasions, the downtown businesses reopened within several days; however, many riverside homes remained severely damaged for significantly longer. Compared to the Great Flood of 1955, the 2004 and 2006 floods did not cause severe damage or fatalities. Cintra, Joshua Ely House, Honey Hollow Watershed, William Kitchen House, New Hope Village District, Rhoads Homestead, and Springdale Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Honey Hollow Watershed is also designated a National Historic Landmark District. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Hope, Pennsylvania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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