Applebachsville, Pennsylvania

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Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US

Populated place in Pennsylvania, United States

CountryUnited States

Elevation

545 ft (166 m)

Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)

ZIP code

18951

Applebachsville Snitzbachsville
Populated place
Applebachsville Applebachsville, Haycock Township Show map of Pennsylvania Applebachsville Applebachsville (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 40°28′57″N 75°16′23″W / 40.48250°N 75.27306°W / 40.48250; -75.27306
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
County	Bucks
Elevation	545 ft (166 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	18951
Area codes	215, 267, and 445

Applebachsville is a populated place in Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States, located 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northeast of Richlandtown.^[1]

The area was known as the Stokes Tract as early as 1735, until 1837, when it was sold by William and Eleanor Stokes to a sea captain, George Dutch. His son George F. Dutch sold the property to General Paul Applebach and his brother Henry in 1847, who were in the cattle and horse business. The Applebach family name was originally 'Afflerbach' from Wittgenstein, in Westphalia, Germany. The first of the family to immigrate here was Johan Henrich Afflerbach, who arrived in Philadelphia aboard the Sally from Rotterdam on 29 October 1770. The Applebachs founded Applebachsville, laying out building lots on Bethlehem Road in 1848. Within a few years, it was visited daily by stagecoaches en route between Philadelphia and Bethlehem, giving the village the nickname 'Metropolis of Haycock'. The Pennsylvania Germans dubbed it 'Snitzbachsville'. A post office was established in 1874, but mail now is delivered by the Quakertown post office. The German Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed and Mennonite (Lutheran, Reformed, Mennonite) church was built in 1855.^[2]

Geography and statistics

Applebachsville's elevation is listed as 545 feet (166 m). It is located adjacent to Lake Towhee Park, which is formed by a dam along Kimples Creek (Dimple Creek), and is located about a mile west of Haycock Mountain, the highest elevation in Bucks County. Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 157 is located on and around Haycock Mountain.^[3]^[1]

Applebachsville students are educated at the Quakertown Community School District.^[4]

The village is served by the Pennsylvania State Police (Dublin Barricks), Haycock Fire Company No. 1 (Station 63), Upper Bucks Regional Emergency Medical Services (Station 141).^[5]

Applebachsville is included in the 18951 ZIP Code (Quakertown, Pennsylvania).^[5]

References

1 2 https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/ Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine The National Map, retrieved 30 November 2018
↑ MacReynolds, George, Place Names in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Doylestown, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA, 1942, P8.
↑ "Applebachsville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
↑ "Applebachsville". Statistical Atlas. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
1 2 "Haycock Township Official Site". Retrieved December 1, 2018.

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