Bucks County is where George Washington and his ragtag Continental Army crossed the Delaware on Christmas Eve, 1776. It's also where the Liberty Bell was hidden to prevent the British Army from melting it for ammunition. More recently, in the mid-20th century NASA astronauts in some of the Apollo missions trained in the centrifuge on the county's Naval Base. It's even where the Burpee Seed Company got it's start. Located between New York City and Philadelphia, Bucks County, once a stagecoach stop between the two cities, has now become a destination in its own right.
Tourists flock here every year to see a part of America that is rapidly disappearing.
Because of outdated state laws the residents are virtually powerless to stop the developers with their large volumes of cash who on an almost daily basis can be found knocking on the doors of farmhouses with the intent to buy the rolling hills of farmland and turn the cornfields and pastures into housing developments that stretch as far as the eye can see. Efforts are now underway to save at least a little of the remaining farmland to preserve the agricultural roots of the area but much irreversible damage has already been done. And the number of farmland is still disappearing at an alarming rate. The significance of this distinction was that the area was deemed to be in immediate danger to permanent loss by development and that the creek could potentially be saved if strong preservation efforts were made to do so. If after reading this you are shocked, upset, or angry about what is going on you are not alone.