Editing Solebury Township, Pennsylvania (section)

== History ==
Migrating [[Quakers|English Quakers]] began to settle down in an area of [[Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Buckingham Township]]. Around 1702, this area was incorporated into a new township called Solebury—carved out of lands deeded to [[William Penn]]. Records indicate that sometime in 1703, Solebury Township had 24 landowners and farmers owning 28 tracts of land, each averaging about 414 acres. Solebury Township once included the area of present-day New Hope until the incorporation of [[New Hope, Pennsylvania|The Borough of New Hope]] in 1837.

Settlers began to move to Solebury Township after hearing about the township's fertile soils and location on the Delaware River. At first, moderately-sized log homes were constructed, followed by more traditional fieldstone houses. These fieldhouses can still be found in the township today.

Solebury Township's resources were put to use, and industries began to spring up. While farming continued as a significant industry, mills meant to cut wood, ground grain, pulverize paper, produce silk, and ground limestone were constructed along streams through the township. When villages started to form in the township, they contained a church, store, post office, and blacksmith shop, making the villages self-sustaining.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=25 July 2013 |title=History of Solebury Township &#124; Solebury Township Historical Society |url=https://soleburyhistory.org/solebury-history/history-of-solebury-township/}}</ref> From 1857 to 1873 when it was relocated to [[Warminster]], [[Emlen Institute]], a boarding school for orphaned African American and Native American children established by a bequest from Samuel Emlen Jr. was in Solebury.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://soleburyhistory.org/on-line-exhibits/interactive-maps/underground-railroad-stops/emlen-institute/ | title=Emlen Institute &#124; Solebury Township Historical Society | date=7 August 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-999 | title=Collection: Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent records &#124; Archives & Manuscripts }}</ref> [[Samuel Beecher Hart]], captain of the "Gray Invincibles" and a state legislator who proposed successful legislation for a monument to Pennsylvania's African American soldiers was an alumnus.

In the 1900s, New Hope and the surrounding area in Solebury Township hosted landscapes used in the [[Pennsylvania Impressionism]] movement.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts |url=https://newhopecolony.org/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=New Hope Colony Foundation for the Arts |language=en-US}}</ref> Impressionists [[William Langson Lathrop|William Lathrop]], [[Edward Willis Redfield|Edward Redfield]], [[Daniel Garber]], [[Fern Coppedge]], [[Morgan Colt]], and [[Mary Elizabeth Price]] all resided in Solebury Township, as well as illustrator [[Charles Hargens]], a resident of [[Carversville, Pennsylvania|Carversville]], a village in Solebury Township.<ref>artist.aspx; philadelphiaencyclopedia.org</ref> Today, Solebury Township remains an enclave to artists.

In 1970, the [[Vietnam Veterans Against the War]] marched through the town as part of [[Operation RAW]], leaving flyers that said "if you were Vietnamese, we would have" committed specific [[war crime]]s against you.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Ronald |date=1970-09-06 |title=WAR PROTESTERS MEET OPPOSITION |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/06/archives/war-protesters-meet-opposition-100-veterans-on-march-are-bitter.html |access-date=2023-06-30 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>