I live in a house built circa 1906 in Lower Makefield. Obviously, it and others in the neighborhood sit on "chopped up" farmland. Would like to know my house's physical relationship (proximity) to the original farmhouses and buildings. I have to assume the barns and outbuildings have been razed, and I don't see any houses that resemble farmhouses of the period.
Hours of searching turned up only one certain fact: There were three farms in the area. That's it, nothing else. Not even sure who the owners were. Also, I know that in some cases, farmland could be quite a distance from the farmer's actual abode.
Coincidentally, my mother-in-law's house (6 blocks away) is a converted stone stable, and I'm assuming it belongs to one of the three farms, but can't pin it down. Either I'm really rotten at searching, or there just isn't any information available.
Any ideas how to find a position map of Bucks County farms in the late 1800s?
Hours of searching turned up only one certain fact: There were three farms in the area. That's it, nothing else. Not even sure who the owners were. Also, I know that in some cases, farmland could be quite a distance from the farmer's actual abode.
Coincidentally, my mother-in-law's house (6 blocks away) is a converted stone stable, and I'm assuming it belongs to one of the three farms, but can't pin it down. Either I'm really rotten at searching, or there just isn't any information available.
Any ideas how to find a position map of Bucks County farms in the late 1800s?
