Bristol, Pennsylvania
Borough in Pennsylvania, US
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Bristol is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Center City in Philadelphia opposite Burlington, New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
Bristol was settled in 1681 and first incorporated in 1720. After 1834, it became very important to the development of the American Industrial Revolution as the terminus city of the Delaware Canal, providing greater Philadelphia with the day's high quality anthracite coal from the Lehigh Canal via Easton. The canal and a short trip on the Delaware River also gave the town access to the mineral resources available in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York via of the Morris Canal, the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, respectively, and connected the community to those markets and trade from New York City.
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Bristol Township, Pennsylvania
Township in Pennsylvania, US
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Merchant Shipbuilding Corporation
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0.5 mi away
Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge
Bridge linking Pennsylvania and New Jersey turnpikes
1.4 mi away
Church of St. James the Greater (Bristol, Pennsylvania)
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0.4 mi away
1855 Camden & Amboy rail accident
Fatal train derailment on the Camden & Amboy Line
1.5 mi away
Harriman Historic District
Historic district in Pennsylvania, United States
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