Holicong Village Historic District

Holicong is a rural crossroads village in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, where Old York Road meets Holicong Road. The district has 18 historic structures on nine properties, seven of them built in the 18th century, mostly two-and-a-half-story fieldstone buildings with slate roofs. Old York Road, whose first section dates to 1693, brought travellers through the village and helped it grow. Lime burning began here as early as 1703, and a limekiln from about 1732 survives, the only one remaining in the Buckingham Township section of the limestone belt. The village also had a post office from 1805, a boarding school for girls established around 1824, and a one-room public school built in 1863. Its buildings show strong English Quaker influence in their plain, symmetrical form and local stone. The district is also linked to the Lenni-Lenape, who camped near the Konkey Hole spring. Because of its early buildings and its mix of uses, the village is regarded as an example of an 18th-century rural settlement.