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14 things to do in Yardley, PA, on one page: 6 history, 5 historic site, 4 landmark. 44 events are coming up at these venues; the Yardley calendar has the dates.
Artists of Yardley runs this nonprofit art center on Mirror Lake Road, where most classes run six weeks, meeting once a week. Summer art camp is the most popular program on the calendar — weekly half-day sessions for ages 5 to 16, June through August.
A 3.2-acre green in downtown Yardley, with the "Greetings from Yardley" mural marking the Buttonwood Drive entrance off South Main. Saturday mornings from 9 to 1 it turns into the Yardley Farmers' Market, a producer-only setup where the eggs, cheese, and produce come from the people selling them.
The old mule-towpath runs flat and straight through the middle of Yardley, part of a 59-mile canal path from Easton down to Bristol that Congress named a National Historic Landmark. Point a bike south and it's about 4.5 shaded miles to Washington Crossing, with ice cream stops along the way.
Two and a half acres of green on the Delaware where South Delaware Ave dead-ends at the river. The Yardley Business Association pours its Beer & Wine Festival here every October, and Harvest Day sets up bands on the grass come fall.
A 300-acre woodland Lower Makefield Township bought back in 1979, sitting on the Fall Line where the Atlantic Coastal Plain meets the Piedmont. A 675-foot ADA boardwalk takes wheels and strollers; the rest of the trails want sturdy shoes.
Pennsylvania's official 9/11 memorial, a 2.5-acre garden inside Lower Makefield's 62-acre Memorial Park, designed by Yardley architect Liuba Lashchyk and dedicated on the fifth anniversary of the attacks. The walking memorial honors all 2,973 victims, 18 of them from Bucks County, and moves deliberately from grief toward light.
A living-history museum in the 1877 A.M.E. church on South Canal Street, telling the African American and women's history most Bucks County guides walk right past. Storytelling here leans on West African Griot tradition instead of wall text, and you can catch the exhibits weekend afternoons or by appointment during the week.
A 1760s mansion that served as George Washington's headquarters December 8 to 14, 1776, and was later owned by Robert Morris and George Clymer, both signers of the Declaration and the Constitution. The Historic Morrisville Society opens it for $7 tours the first Saturday of each month, 10 to 1.
A hand-dug millpond from the early 1700s that's now the scenic middle of Yardley: skate it in January, fish it in July. Take the gravel promenade along Afton Avenue and watch for turtles and the geese working you for bread.
Ninety-two acres on the Delaware in Lower Makefield, anchored by the popular paved bike path — 4,222 family-friendly feet made for training wheels and strollers. Picnic areas, walking trails, and playgrounds fill in the rest.
A nonprofit teaching farm that runs summer camp, school field trips, and a fall festival, all a few minutes down the road in Morrisville. Every bit of produce grown here, 100 percent, goes to local food kitchens and distribution centers.
Everything in this East Afton gallery is Nancy Allen's own work — kiln-fired glass, jewelry, drawings, all one of a kind. Allen was also the catalyst for the Artists of Yardley nonprofit, so a good chunk of the borough's art scene traces back to her.
The riverbank where Washington's army crossed the Delaware on Christmas night 1776, kept as a historic village with the Thompson-Neely House, a grist mill, and soldiers' graves. Grounds are open dawn to dusk and the visitor center runs daily 10 to 5, about ten minutes up River Road from Yardley.
Keepers of the Old Library by Lake Afton, an 1878 building where Yardley's deeds, maps, and old photographs actually live where you can see them. They also run walking tours down the Delaware Canal towpath, which is the version of town history you take on foot.
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