Village of Edgewood Historic District

Edgewood is a rural village where Yardley-Langhorne and Stony Hill Roads meet, in the fields beyond the coastal plain fall line in Lower Makefield Township, Bucks County. The village grew from a crossroads settlement first called Biles Corner after Dr. William Biles, who built a home and practice there. Its twenty-eight structures range from 18th-century fieldstone houses, including Biles' House and Tomlinson's Store, to Victorian frame dwellings and a 1921 masonry grange hall. The Miller house, known as Old Shade, is cited for its Adamesque doorway and is described as a fine example of federal architecture. Edgewood was the center of a farming economy that supplied Morrisville and Philadelphia, and it had blacksmiths, wheelwrights and a shoemaker. Its tenant houses and surviving barns record how family farms were worked by manual labor. The village also served as a summer resort and as a meeting place for the Edgewood and Middletown Granges.