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Bensalem is the southernmost township in Bucks County and is bordered by Philadelphia to the west and south, Croydon and the rest of Bristol Township to the east and northeast, Hulmeville and Middletown Township to the north, and Feasterville, Trevose, and Oakford in Lower Southampton Township to the northwest.
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The county is divided into ten townships, which are both numbered and named: 1 ( Carthage ), 2 ( Bensalem ), 3 ( Sheffields ), 4 ( Ritter ), 5 ( Deep River ), 6 ( Greenwood ), 7 ( McNeill ), 8 ( Sandhill ), 9 ( Mineral Springs ), and 10 ( Little River ).
Bensalem Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States which borders the northeast section of Philadelphia.
The township is composed of many communities, including Bensalem, Trevose, Oakford, Cornwells Heights, Eddington, and Andalusia.
The fall line, which separates the Atlantic Coastal Plain region from the Piedmont region, runs through Bensalem, and is visible around the Neshaminy Mall area.
Bensalem is home to Parx Casino and Racetrack, a thoroughbred horse racing track.
The Mission Center and National Shrine of St. Katharine Drexel is located on Bristol Pike in Bensalem.
Bensalem is also home to the Mongkoltepmunee Buddhist Temple, or Wat Mongkoltepmunee, on Knights Road.
The Neshaminy Mall is located within Bensalem.
Fortune 1000 company Charming Shoppes has its headquarters in Bensalem, and is ranked # 810 on the 2010 list.
Bensalem township is readily accessible with Interstate 95, U. S. Route 1, Pennsylvania Turnpike, U. S. Route 13, Woodhaven Road ( PA 63 ) and Street Road all passing through.
The Bensalem ( formerly Philadelphia ) Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( exit 351, at U. S. Route 1 ) is in the Trevose section of the township.
In addition, the eastbound Street Road interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike ( exit 352 ), which is E-ZPass only, is now open in Bensalem.
Bensalem is home to the Philadelphia Gun Club which hosts one of the few trap pigeon shoots in the United States.
Though not a municipality, it is sometimes recognized as the largest suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania ( while Upper Darby Township, Lower Merion Township, Bensalem Township, Abington Township and Bristol Township are municipalities larger in size in the three surrounding Pennsylvania counties ).
The Nicholas Biddle Estate in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, also known as Andalusia, is a National Historic Landmark.
They resided in Trevose Manor, now known as Growden Mansion, and owned much of the land which is now Bensalem, Pennsylvania In 1779 he appeared as a government witness in a parliamentary enquiry into the conduct of Lord Howe and General Howe during the Philadelphia Campaign of which he was deeply critical.
She is buried in Cornwells Heights, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania.
The Saint Katharine Drexel Mission Center and National Shrine is located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Franklin Mills is an enclosed shopping mall located in northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, bordering Bensalem in Bucks County and outside Center City.
Torresdale is located along the Delaware River between Holmesburg and Bensalem Township in neighboring Bucks County.
Bensalem and township
In 1987, the people of Bensalem voted to become a second-class township with a five-member council and a mayor.
The Feasterville-Trevose CDP referred to by the U. S. Census Bureau encompasses a portion of Lower Southampton Township, but other sections of the township to the west and south are commonly considered parts of Feasterville, while the community of Trevose extends into Bensalem Township.
Southampton's boundaries at that time extended eastward to Bensalem, and it was not until 1929 that the township was divided into " Upper Southampton " and " Lower Southampton ".
Bensalem and Bucks
1944 — School moved to Bristol, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, PA.
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John Servis led him back into training and by early November 2003, the colt had recovered completely and was ready to make his racing debut at nearby Philadelphia Park ( now known as Parx Racing and Casino ), a racetrack in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
* Jock Sturges Color ( Catalogue of Portfolio published by Ataraxia, Bensalem )
Bensalem and Philadelphia
Delanco also borders the Delaware River, and across it, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia.
In the middle of his freshman year, he left South Florida to join his father in the Philadelphia area, and attended high school in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Bensalem and Township
At the time, the Galloway family owned all of present day Bensalem Township.
Bensalem ( Pennsylvania ) Township Police Department
* Bensalem Township Home Page
* Bensalem Township School District
Cornwells Heights and Eddington are adjacent unincorporated communities within Bensalem Township that are grouped together in the CDP for statistical purposes.
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Francis Bacon's 1627 essay The New Atlantis describes a utopian society that he called Bensalem, located off the western coast of America.
Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.
In September 1981, Elger was renamed " Hoshino U. S. A .", retaining the company headquarters in Bensalem, Pennsylvania as a distribution and quality-control center.
The next year she and thirteen other sisters moved into St. Elizabeth Convent in Bensalem.
It serves as a place of high ceremonies and meditation for a community of Buddhist monks who came to Bensalem from Thailand in the 1980s.
Benjamin Franklin would often travel to Bensalem to visit his friend, Joseph Galloway, at Growden Mansion.
A local legend maintains that Franklin performed his famous kite-flying experiment in Bensalem, at the mansion, to prove that lightning was the same as static electricity.
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