Editing Bart Township, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
===Founding===
The name of Bart Township apparently comes from a reinterpretation of the abbreviation "Bart." for "Baronet".<ref>[http://www.lancasterhistory.org/research/databases/townshipnames.html Township names] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902213135/http://www.lancasterhistory.org/research/databases/townshipnames.html |date=September 2, 2006 }}</ref> This abbreviation was used by former Colonial Governor [[Sir William Keith, 4th Baronet|Sir William Keith, Bart.]]<ref>P. 653, The Chronicles of Pennsylvania by Charles Keith</ref> After being forced out of the Governorship by [[Hannah Penn]],<ref>Keith, Chronicles P.685</ref> Sir William Keith, Bart. won election as an Assemblyman in [[Philadelphia]]. In March 1728, Sir William Keith, Bart. left Pennsylvania in a hurry—he was running out on his debts. He left for England, never to return<ref>Keith, Chronicles P.697</ref> He abandoned his wife, Lady Keith, who is buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Philadelphia.

What is now Bart Township was part of Sadsbury, [[Chester County, Pennsylvania|Chester County]] before the formation of Lancaster County.

In 1744, [[Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Sadsbury Township]] was split into two; the western part was organized as Bart Township and the eastern part remained Sadsbury Township. In 1854, Bart Township was split into two, with the western part organized as [[Eden Township, Pennsylvania|Eden Township]], and the eastern part remaining Bart Township.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120724132807/http://www.co.lancaster.pa.us/eden_township/cwp/view.asp Everets & Stewart, Historical Atlas of Lancaster Co. Pennsylvania Illustrated, 1875, p. XVI.]</ref>

===Modern history===
On October 2, 2006, a lone gunman, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, shot ten Amish schoolgirls, killing five of them, in [[West Nickel Mines School shooting|an attack on West Nickel Mines Parochial School]], an [[Amish]] [[one-room school]] in [[Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania|Nickel Mines]], Bart Township. Roberts then shot and killed himself as police responded.