{"nrhp_refnum":"94000517","name":"Uhlerstown Historic District","other_names":["Uhlerstown Village and Rural Historic District","See Also:Dela"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by the Delaware R., Jugtown Hill Rd., and the Delaware Canal, Tinicum Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uhlerstown","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.53130833150004,"lon":-75.0715426476793,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-05-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Commerce","Transportation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A village and rural historic district astride the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, comprising 104 resources on 76 parcels on about 240 acres. It centres on the canal-era village of Uhlerstown, which grew from the site of Lock No. 18 and was shaped largely by Michael Uhler, with surrounding worker housing and farmland.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is significant for its association with commerce and transportation tied to the canal, for the influence of Michael Uhler in developing the village's commercial activity, and for its representative early to early twentieth-century architecture. It describes the village as an unusually intact canal-period setting, with agricultural land and palisade cliffs that separate it from later development.","narrative":"Uhlerstown is a canal-era village and surrounding farmland on the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal in Tinicum Township, Bucks County. Its growth began at Lock No. 18, and it expanded after Michael Uhler arrived in the early 1850s. Uhler built a Gothic Revival brick house, a stone hotel, mills, lime kilns, boat yards and a store, and he operated a line of canal boats. Worker housing, mostly modest frame houses, lines the canal and River Road. The village kept its relationship with surrounding farms, which still border it. A covered bridge over the canal dates to 1832, and the hotel near the Delaware River served ferry and rail travellers. Palisade cliffs form a backdrop that separates the village from later development. The district is valued as a largely intact picture of how a canal village worked between 1832 and 1932.","period_of_significance":"1832-1932","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Southeast Pennsylvania; Gothic Revival (Michael Uhler house); Greek Revival (brick farmhouse)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Integrity described as excellent; the canal closed in 1932 and commercial activity ended, with some buildings converted to residences and others left to decay.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.100793-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/94000517.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000517/f8b3989659-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000517/f8b3989659-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Zeete","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locktender%27s_House,_Lock_18,_Uhlerstown,_PA_-_2025.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeete</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Locktender%27s_House,_Lock_18,_Uhlerstown,_PA_-_2025.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998402","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlerstown_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7877993"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/uhlerstown-historic-district-94000517/"}