// Bucks County History Text
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evt[2]=[[1953,'Local 4889 of the United Steelworkers of America was chartered.']];
evt[3]=[[1971,'The Bucks County Playhouse was declared the official Bucks County theater.']];
evt[4]=[[1755,'John Lacey, a Quaker General, was born near Wrightstown.']];
evt[5]=[[1901,'Penn Valley School in Bensalem Township was closed for seven days because of a diptheria epidemic.']];
evt[6]=[[1792,'The first action to establish Buckingham Friends School was taken.']];
evt[7]=[[1927,'The two-room Washington Crossing School was opened at a cost of $13,923.98.']];
evt[8]=[[1799,'Fries\' Rebellion began in Bucks County with the first overt acts of resistance to the House Tax Law.']];
evt[9]=[[1815,'The first Sellersville post office was established.']];
evt[10]=[[1906,'<i>The Bucks County Gazette</i> changed its name to the <i>Weekly Courier</i>.']];
evt[11]=[[1821,'John Harmon, Jr., of Upper Makefield Township, patented a threshing machine.']];
evt[13]=[[1731,'James Biddle, the first judge in the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, was born.']];
evt[14]=[[1854,'Gideon Prior, the last surviving Revolutionary War veteran, died in Hartsville.']];
evt[15]=[[1931,'Dial telephone service was installed in Sellersville, and the trolley made its last run to Doylestown.']];
evt[17]=[[1722,'The sale of the first county courthouse and prison was authorized.']];
evt[18]=[[1893,'Lower Bucks County suffered a snowstorm that left drifts 15 feet deep.']];
evt[19]=[[1954,'Bolton Mansion was deeded to Bristol Township by Levitt and Sons.']];
evt[21]=[[1861,'President-elect Abraham Lincoln visited Bucks County.']];
evt[22]=[[1778,'Artist Rembrandt Peale was born in Bucks County.']];
evt[23]=[[1781,'George Taylor, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Easton.']];
evt[24]=[[1847,'The Lahaska and New Hope Turnpike Company was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.']];
evt[28]=[[1899,'Herman Sell finished the first kiln at the Moravian Tile Works in Doylestown.']];
evt[29]=[[1960,'The Cecelia Snyder Middle School opened in Bensalem.']];