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The Atlas Obscura Guide To New Hope

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in New Hope, Pennsylvania

Updated February 13, 2018
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Van Sant Crybaby Bridge

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
Bowman’s Hill Tower

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Bowman's Hill Tower

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.
Boomer.

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Boomer

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.
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The historic covered bridge.

Stockton, New Jersey

Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.
5 miles from New Hope

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

Washington Crossing Historic Park

The site of the daring river crossing that changed the course of the American Revolution.
6 miles from New Hope
The Octagonal Schoolhouse was built with local fieldstones and its current roof of hand-hewn cedar shingles is historically accurate.

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Wrightstown Schoolhouse

This 1802 building is the last remaining octagonal schoolhouse in Bucks County.
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Grave of Levi Doan, “An Outlaw”

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Doan Outlaw Graves

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.
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