Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania

Bucks County

Bensalem Township, Bucks County is in southeastern Pennsylvania. At the census in 2010 involved 60 427 inhabitants, almost 10 % of the residents of the county to the so largest municipality in the district and the ninth largest in the state.

History

Bensalem was in 1692, just ten years after the founding of Pennsylvania, founded under the name Salem. Since at least 1701, only the present name is, however, again.

Geography

The municipality is bordered to the south immediately to Philadelphia, and on the east by the Burlington County, New Jersey.

Population

Attractions

Andalusia, Nicholas Biddle Estate, or is an on the Delaware River front property, located from 1794. Its present Greek Revival style, it was from 1834 to 1836 after a reconstruction by Thomas U. Walter, the architect of the dome of the Capitol.