2024
Feb 4th – Exploring Lenapehoking: The Land of the Lenape – A talk with Archaeologist Matt Bielecki
Feb 10th – SIPS Painting
Feb 18th – Researching Old House – A talk with Jeff Marshall
Mar 10th – SIPS Painting
Mar 24th – Family History 101 – Introduction to Genealogy
Apr 18th – Cuttalossa History Walk – Mills, Beauty and Hard Times
2023
June 25th – Solebury Township Historical Society Annual Event and Fundraiser – A GARDEN PARTY WITH WILLIAM AND ANNIE LATHROP
Special thanks to our sponsors and auction item donors: Tinsman Brothers Building Materials, Jay Spaziano Real Estate, Angel’s Cards & Gifts, Rago Arts & Auction Center, Walter’s Nursery, Jarrett Vaughan Builders, Peddler’s Village, Tohickon Settlement Services, Eiseman Construction, GMG Insurance, Gratz Gallery, Parry Insurance, Northeast Equitable Mortgage, HMR Architects, Solebury Township Supervisors, Martha Sperling Fine Art, HollyHedge Estate, Augenblick & Co, The Aaron Burr House, The Logan Inn, Bucks County Playhouse, Pierre’s Chocolates, Triumph Brewery, Caleb’s American Kitchen, New Hope Stained Glass, Dakota Moon Jewelry, Doylestown YMCA, Puritie Spa, Oldestone Steakhouse, Michener Museum, Pearl Mintzer, The Black Bass, Manoff Market Gardens, Angel’s Cards and Gifts, The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, Nurture Spa, Peace Pie, Dot Bunn Fine Art, Giant Food Stores, ME Salon, Max Hansen Catering, The 1740 House, and Suzanne Crilley.
February 19th – SIPS Painting
March 14th – Jewelry Consignment Event hosted by Rago Arts
March 26th – SIPS Painting
Many thanks for donations from the following local business partners for this SIPS event – GIANT FOOD, MCCAFFERY’S and FIRST NATIONAL BANK
April 16th @ 2pm – Royal Rebels, The Doan Gang of Bucks County Part III
May 7th @ 2pm – Cuttalossa History Walk – Mills, Beauty and Hard Times
Kenderdine Bone Mill
May 21th – Lumberville History Walk
June 25th @ 2pm – Royal Rebels, The Doan Gang of Bucks County Part IV
2022
June 12, 2022 – Tales of the Doan Gang, Part II
October 16, 2022 – Cuttalossa Walk – Mills, Beauty and Hard Times
December 4, 2022 – Annual Meeting/Open House
2019
January 1, 2019 – STHS New Year’s Day Brunch, HollyHedge Estates
January 27, 2019 – Impression-Sips, Schoolhouse
February 24, 2019 – Impression-Sips, Schoolhouse
March 24, 2019 – Impression-Sips, Schoolhouse
September 7, 2019 – Annual Picnic at Tinsman’s Lumberyard, 4 – 7pm
October 12, 2019 – “Perfect Pairings” Food and Wine, 5 – 8pm at member’s home
November 10, 2019 – STHS Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Supper, 4 – 6pm at Bucks County Audubon Society
Cheers to a successful “Perfect Pairings” food and wine fundraiser on Saturday, October 12, 2019.
The lively and delicious evening featured fine wines and food prepared by Chef Chadd Jenkins. Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers and gracious hosts Chuck and Pearl Mintzer.
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Annual Picnic at Tinsman Brothers Lumberyard, September 7, 2019
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Splash Steamboat Cruise, September 16, 2018
Historical Society Walk, June 16, 2018
Local historian Patty Bacon of Deer Park led a group on a route along Ingham Road, Lower Mountain Road and Aquetong Road to the Aquetong Spring Park, Rolling Green and other sites while talking about the Lenape and the first settlers in this area. It is the 240th anniversary of George Washington’s march with the army from Valley Forge, up the York Road to cross the Delaware at New Hope towards the Battle of Monmouth.
Impression-Sips, March 25, 2018
Painting is inspired by John Folinsbee’s “Pemaquid Lighthouse.”
Impression-Sips, February 25, 2018
Inspired by the work of RAD Miller “Kitchens Lane.” Eleanor Miller spoke about father-in-law artist RAD Miller.
Impression-Sips, January 20, 2018
STHS Impression-Sips partnered with New Hope-Lambertville Winter Festival. Inspired by George Sotter’s “Moonlight in Bucks County.”
Commemoration of Solebury’s One-Room Schoolhouse as Historic Place, August 27, 2017
Members of the Heritage Conservancy’s Historical Review Board Committee and the Board of the Solebury Township Historical Society commemorate the addition of Solebury’s one room schoolhouse as a Historic Place on the Register of Historic Places in July 2017. The Heritage Conservancy, which works to preserve noted buildings and sites in Bucks and Montgomery counties, recognized the STHS for its work to preserve the 1755 site and 1865 structure located at 3020 North Sugan Rd. Solebury, PA which is open to the public every Wednesday, 3-5 PM or by appointment. First row: Stephanie Garomon, Pres., STHS, holding the commemorative plaque. Second row, left to right: Denise Blasdale, Toby Hoffman, Melody Hunt; Third row, left to right: Ralph Fey, Linda Brinker, Sue-Ann DiVito; Fourth row, left to right: Terry McNealy, Nancy Brown, Robert McEwan.
Annual Picnic at Tinsman Brothers Lumberyard, August 27, 2017
Meetinghouse Road History Walk, May 6, 2017
Relief for the Poor in Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century, March 5, 2017
Lecture by Jesse Crooks
Impression-Sips, February 26, 2016
Solebury New Year’s Brunch, January 1, 2017
Annual Meeting, November 13, 2016
Solebury Friends Cemetery Tour, November 12, 2016
Led by Jesse Crooks
Solebury Day, September 17, 2016
Second annual Solebury Day at Laurel Park. Nancy Lawson was the winner of the raffle with the prize being a Solebury throw. Nancy chose the red one.
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Annual Picnic at the home of Jillian McGlone, August 21, 2016
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Second Graders Visit the Schoolhouse, May 23, 2016
STHS hosted the New Hope-Solebury second graders at the schoolhouse. Board members Marnie Newman-Leasure, Darcy Fair, and Stephanie Garomon and volunteer Michele Stulpin worked with the four 2nd grade classes and their teachers. The children sang songs accompanied by Darcy on the harp, discussed community, and went on a historic scavenger hunt.
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This Old House, April 19, 1998
The Solebury one-room schoolhouse, built 1765, rebuilt 1810 and 1870. This photo gallery was a school project of Jim Reiss and Adrian Potter. The long captions are theirs.
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Solebury Day, September 19, 2015
Solebury Township sponsored the first annual Solebury Day at Laurel Park. STHS was one of many organizations participating.
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Picnic at Tollgate Farm, August 30, 2015
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Social Studies Teachers’ 192nd Day – May 18, 2015
New Hope Solebury social studies teachers on an Underground Railroad tour with Jesse Crooks. Photos by Marnie Newman Leasure
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First Grades’ Visits to the Schoolhouse, June 8-12, 2015
STHS hosted the five first-grade classes from New Hope-Solebury Elementary School at the one-room schoolhouse. Sally Jagoe was the schoolmarm and Linda Kenyon was her assistant. Photos by Marnie Newman Leasure
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Impression-Sips
January 25, 2015
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February 22, 2015
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March 15, 2015
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Solebury New Year’s Brunch, January 1, 2015
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Cuttalossa Walk, October 25, 2014
Picnic at Schoolhouse, August 24, 2014
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From Slavery to Freedom—The Underground Railroad,
May 15 and May 18, 2014
Special thanks to Doreen Stratton , Brian Keyes, and Elaine Crooks for sharing their photos.
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Open House, April 6, 2014
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New Year’s Brunch, January 1, 2014
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Annual Meeting, November 17, 2013
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Solebury Friends Cemetery Tour, October 27, 2013
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STHS Repeats History, September 21, 2013
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Picnic at Kenyon Home, August 28, 2013
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Revolutionary War Tour, June 23, 2013
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Mill Walk along Aquetong Creek, May 5, 2012
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