The inn later became known as the George II.
Clift was required by the grant to maintain ferry service across the Delaware River to Burlington, New Jersey, and to run a public house or inn. The grant became effective on Ma( new style) or Ma(old style) at the same time as William Penn's Charter from Charles II became effective. Samuel Clift founded the Borough of Bristol, having received a land grant from Edmund Andros, who was then governor of New York. History The historic King George II Inn, in downtown Bristol Borough House on Mill Street, constructed in 1781 Grundy Mills Complex, a former textile mill in Bristol Borough Bristol Borough's Harriman Historic District It is served by SEPTA's Trenton Line.īristol is located 70.9 miles (114.1 km) southeast of Allentown and 22.4 miles (36.0 km) northeast of Philadelphia. The most recent 2010 census showed its population at 9,726. The canal and a short trip on the Delaware River also gave the town access to the mineral resources available in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York via each of the Morris Canal, the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and connected the community to those markets and trade from New York City.Īlthough its charter was revised in 1905, the original charter remains in effect, making it the third-oldest borough in Pennsylvania after Chester and Germantown. After 1834, it became very important to the development of the American Industrial Revolution as the terminus city of the Delaware Canal, providing greater Philadelphia with the day's high quality anthracite coal from the Lehigh Canal via Easton.
It is located 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Center City Philadelphia, opposite Burlington, New Jersey on the Delaware River.īristol was settled in 1681 and first incorporated in 1720. Bristol is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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