Carl LaVO

A group of rich Quaker merchants making money as the Free Society of Traders convinced William Penn to grant them 20,000 acres of Bucks County property in 1862. Insiders say

Columnist Carl LaVO shares Bucks County Herald readers' feedback on two recent columns — “Lords, Vassals and plans for an English fiefdom in Bucks” and “Historic August weather perils.”

The fun of writing a column such as mine is feedback from readers who offer insights of their own.

There are scars in our 344-year history. One of them is the complicity of Bucks County in keeping free Black people from voting in Pennsylvania for 32 years. It’s worth

Doylestown has its historical niche pioneering the future of America. In 1845, the borough became a “pioneer station” for a national telegraphy network that in six years would cover 12,000

A few months ago, I heard from Dana Caracciolo, of the Eastern Alliance of Climbers. She and her associates love rock climbing but disagree with a recent column's characterization of

In Pipersville, the Historic Piper Tavern, from which the town got its name, defines the village of 60 residents.

Richboro’s Henry Wynkoop was a hunted man in the summer of 1776. Redcoats occupying New York wanted the 39-year-old Bucks County farmer to be arrested and hung. Orders went out

Our goal was to find the house where Dorothy “Dottie” Parker lived for 20 years. We were told she lived in Pipersville. We had a picture of her farmhouse taken

Ed Marston, who lives in the village of Smithtown near Point Pleasant, recently shared with me an old photo of a waterwheel churning beside the Delaware Canal. My follow-up research