Mechanicsville Village Historic District

Mechanicsville is a crossroads village in northern Buckingham Township, Bucks County, laid out around the junction of Durham and Mechanicsville Roads. Its houses, mostly stone or wood frame and two and a half stories high, date from the opening years of the nineteenth century, when the settlement was founded after a road was laid through the area in 1803. The village grew as a base for craftsmen, and by the first sixty years of the century at least fifteen artisans lived there, including blacksmiths, shoemakers, carpenters and a wheelwright. In the late nineteenth century Samuel Wilson built a seed business in the village that by 1897 was described as the largest seed business in the United States run by one individual. The district is regarded as a well-preserved early village, with multi-paned sash windows, wood shutters and simple door surrounds largely intact across its houses and outbuildings.