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Holland

School District: Council Rock

Village [1] in southwestern Northampton Township on the road from Newtown to Feasterville. It was first known as Finneys Mill from the Finney family who owned a grist mill there. It was next called Rocksville, so named because of the rocky creek banks nearby. The station on the Trenton Cut-off Railroad near the village is named Roxton, and the village itself is marked Rocksville on the State Highway Department's Map of Bucks County, 1940. Holland has been a post office since July 11, 1870, and the name of the village was then changed from Rocksville to that of the pioneer Dutch settlers' fatherland. At this time the village had twenty dwelling houses, two flouring mills and several shops. Holland is also the name of a railroad station in the same township on the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad between St. Leonard and Churchville stations.

  1. MacReynolds, George, Place Names in Bucks County, 1942, Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA.
Polk's 1882 Gazetteer

HOLLAND. Located on the P. N. & N. Y. R. R., in Northampton township, Bucks county, 15 miles southeast of Doylestown, the county seat. Contains 136 inhabitants. Joseph Finney, postmaster. Bennett A J, blacksmith.

  • Bennett A J, blacksmith.
  • Breese T L & Son, wagonmkrs.
  • Finney John F, justice.
  • Finney Joseph, General Store.
  • Gearhart I W, flour mill.
  • Harding Isaac, blacksmith.
  • Johnson Martin, wagonmkr.
  • Patterson B C, flour mill.
  • Terry W S, blacksmith.
  • Worthington James, blacksmith.
  • Wright A J, blacksmith.

R.L.Polk, Pennsylvania State Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1882, Philadelphia

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Street Names: Holland Road, Old Bristol Road
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