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  History of Hopewell, New York
In 1860 the town of Hopewell had a population of less than 2,000 inhabitants, notwithstanding which during the war, it furnished volunteers and troops for all branches of the service to the extent of more than 200 men, or more than ten per cent, of the town's population at the time.
However, the proximity of Hopewell to the county village has operated to the disadvantage of the former, as enterprises have chosen Canandaigua as a place of operation rather than a remote locality.
The Wesleyan church of Hopewell is to be mentioned among the institutions of Hopewell Center, although its members came from the town generally.
history.rays-place.com /ny/hopewell-ny.htm   (2625 words)

  
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Hopewell UMC's history extends back to the late 1700's when settlers, having left the areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania headed south to this area, which they called "Hopewell" for the Hopewell township in Pennsylvania and the Hopewell Presbyterian Church on the banks of the Susquehanna River.
Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church was officially founded in 1822.
Hopewell United Methodist Church is a place where each member is important and each member is needed in order that the church might continue to fulfill its mission to introduce the Love of God to the people of the community and the world through example and witness.
www.gbgm-umc.org /umc-hopewell/page6.html   (255 words)

  
 Crumrine - Hopewell Twp.
HOPEWELL, the seventh of the list of original townships of Washington County, formed July 15, 1781, embraced at the time of its erection the territory of the present townships of Hopewell, Independence, Cross Creek, and Jefferson, and part of that of Mount Pleasant.
Robert Caldwell was one of the earliest settlers of Hopewell township.
Hopewell township at its erection in 1781 embraced in addition to its present territory that of the townships of Independence, Cross Creek, and Jefferson, and part of that of Mount Pleasant.
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 HOPEWELL HILL, HOPEWELL CAPE, SHEPODY & AREA
The name HOPEWELL CAPE is believed to come from Hopewell in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. or for the ship which brought settlers from Ireland in 1761.
The world famous Hopewell Rocks are located here and each day, you can walk the ocean floor and return a few hours later to see the beach area covered by up to 40 + feet of water.
The Hopewell Rocks Tidal Exploration Site was taken over and transformed into a world class center for interpretation of the mighty rock formations on the beach as well as an interpretation center for the geological and cultural history of the area.
www.albertcountytourism.com /HopewellHillCapeShepodyArea.html   (630 words)

  
 Seneca, Hopewell Township, Ohio, History
Keller was married to Margaret Kinney, born in Hopewell Township, this county, June 8, 1831, daughter of Bartholomew and Mary (McBride) Kinney.
BARTHOLOMEW KINNEY (deceased), one of the early sottlers of Hopewell Township, this county, was born in County Cork, Ireland, a son of Bartholomew and Margaret Kinney.
This pioneer and early settler, of Hopewell Township, was born in Shenandoah County, Va., June 28, 1798, and is a son of Anthony and Barbara Rosenberger.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Seneca/SenBHopewell.htm   (7933 words)

  
 History
As they floated along the Ohio aboard their keelboats and flatboats, some of the early pioneers were attracted by the green slopes of the future Hopewell Township and steered for shore.
The central theme of Pennsylvania history is the way in which a commonwealth of yeoman farmers became a commonwealth of industrialists, city dwellers and labor unions.
Did settlers from Hopewell Township, Washington County settle in the area, which subsequently became Beaver County, and influence the naming of the township that was formed in the readjustment of townships in Beaver County in 1812?
www.hopewelltwp.com /history.htm   (5593 words)

  
 East Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The racial makeup of the township was 98.60% White, 0.27% African American, 0.59% Asian, 0.05% from other races, and 0.50% from two or more races.
In the township the population was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 28.8% from 45 to 64, and 6.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township was $58,194, and the median income for a family was $61,734.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Hopewell_Township,_Pennsylvania   (346 words)

  
 North Hopewell Township, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
North Hopewell Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
In the township the population was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 31.1% from 25 to 44, 28.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a household in the township was $47,139, and the median income for a family was $55,438.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Hopewell_Township,_Pennsylvania   (345 words)

  
 North Hopewell Township , Felton Pennsylvania
The 12-page easy-to-use guide, published in English or Spanish provides information on the types of emergencies that may affect the commonwealth's communities and residents, now residents will be notified of an event, and the plans that are in place to deal with these events.
The publication includes telephone numbers for the Red Cross, the Pennsylvania Poison Control Centers, and county emergency management agencies and health departments.
Township residents also may call toll-free, (877) PA-HEALTH, to request the guide or download it by logging onto www.state.pa.us, www.health.state.pa.us, www.pema.state.pa.us, or www.homelandsecurity.state.pa.us.
northhopewelltwp.com   (229 words)

  
 Welcome to Upper Saucon Township
To become a first class township, townships of the second class must have a population density of 300 people per square mile and voters must approve the change of classification in a referendum.
The 1,457 townships of the second class are the most popular form of government in the Commonwealth, representing more Pennsylvanians than any other form of government.
The Township only assumes responsibility when the plow comes in direct contact with your mailbox, shrubbery, fence post, etc. If damage was done as a result of snow expelled from the plow, it is the property owner's responsibility.
www.uppersaucon.org /faqs.html   (1072 words)

  
 PA-CUMBERLAND TWP. MAP
The name Rathmullan Township appears in very old deeds for locations now in Franklin County, and its relationship to Hopewell is difficult to determine.
While counties are organized on the basis of provincial and state legislative acts as approved by the head of government, townships in Pennsylvania have not always been documented in any fashion.
The township lines and dates on the accompanying maps are given as well as can be ascertained from many varied sources and seem to hold up in general when compared to the historical records from the period.
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 DQE seeks input on power plant plans - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Hopewell resident Beverly Abate said she would like the tax revenue and job growth a power plant would create.
About 60 people attended Thursday's meeting at the Hopewell Township building to discuss the proposed plant, which would be built between the Ohio River and Route 51, just south of the Beaver County Jail on a site formerly occupied by an LTV Corp. steel mill that closed in the late 1980s.
Hopewell Township is one of a string of communities along the Ohio River that flourished during the height of the steel industry.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_74276.html   (754 words)

  
 The Sentinel Online : Archives : Shippensburg : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ann Newburger says Hopewell Township residents would be "suckers" to rezone a tract of agricultural land and open the door for expansion at the Cumberland County Landfill.
David Rutherford, a township farmer and businessman, told supervisors he once farmed the Snyder tract when it was still owned by Robert Snyder - a staunch opponent of the landfill from the 1970s.
Hopewell Township supervisors are scheduled to vote on Cumberland County Landfill's rezoning request when they meet at 8:30 a.m.
www.cumberlink.com /articles/2003/12/18/shippensburg/news/news02.txt   (846 words)

  
 Town of Hopewell and the Pioneer Cemetery Continuation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The turnpike across Hopewell was the favorite route over which droves of cattle, sheep hogs were driven enroute to markets in New York and Boston.
While Hopewell has been the the theater of no spectacular progress, or remarkable advance in any one direction, it has held its own, paid its honest debts, contributed its full share toward the public burdens imposed by town, county and state.
Services were held close to the year 1800 and their church building erected soon after, on the present site of "The P1oneer Burying Ground of Hopewell." For 30 years there was a large membership and its activities made up an important part of their lives.The church building itself was large and imposing for that day.
www.burrcook.com /history/Ontario/hopewell/hopextra.htm   (2619 words)

  
 Pennsylvania
West Middletown Borough.--West Middletown is situated within the boundaries of the township of Hopewell, in its northwestern part, on the dividing ridge between the waters of Buffalo and Cross Creeks, and on the main road leading to Washington borough, which road forms the main street of the town.
Hopewelltown.--James Gillespie, who was a settler in the township prior to 1788 (his name being found on the assessment-roll of that year), conceived the idea of starting a town upon his tract of land.
Schools.--Primitive schools, supported by subscription, were taught in this township, as elsewhere in the county, several years before the beginning of the present century; but few particulars have been learned concerning them, or the teachers employed in them prior to 1828.
www.irishgenealogy.com /us/pa/default.htm   (12929 words)

  
 Interstate 95 (Trenton Section)
However, the BPR withheld approval of the proposed alignment from Ewing Township south to the Delaware River, pending coordination of an acceptable routing with the Pennsylvania Department of Highways.
The 29-mile-long section between Ewing Township and Piscataway was to be constructed to Interstate standards, with 12-foot-wide lanes, 12-foot-wide shoulders, a 60-foot-wide median and a 300-foot-wide right-of-way.
In 1995, officials in the Hopewell Township and Princeton areas discussed the possibility of reviving the Somerset Freeway between the existing I-95 in Ewing Township and I-287 in Piscataway.
www.nycroads.com /roads/I-95_NJ   (4170 words)

  
 Ontario NY History and Genealogy, Hopewell History
The district thus set off was called "Easton" but on April 19, 1806, the name, not giving very good satisfaction to many citizens of the district, was changed to Lincoln, and still later, April 6,1807, to Gorham, in honor of Nathaniel GORHAM, one of the proprietors under the Massachusetts Preemption purchase.
His was the first death in the present town of Manchester, which occurred on March 12, 1796, and his remains were buried in the old rural cemetery in Hopewell, on the main road leading from Canandaigua to Manchester.
As it has been before remarked in the course of this humble sketch, Hopewell was typically an agricultural town, and most of its citizens were tillers of the soil, hence its manufacturing interests were of no great extent, nor was much capital invested therein.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/county/ontario/hopewellhist.html   (521 words)

  
 Hopewell township, PA Business Data: Stores, Dealers, Real Estate Agents, Wholesalers, Restaurants, etc.
Hopewell township, PA Business Data: Stores, Dealers, Real Estate Agents, Wholesalers, Restaurants, etc.
Based on the data from 1997 when the population of Hopewell township, Pennsylvania was 13,565
Back to: Hopewell township, PA (don't miss, contains a wealth of additional information), Pennsylvania, United States.
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 Hopewell, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (Beaver County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Hopewell is a township in Beaver County, in the Pittsburgh metro area.
· Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
· Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=275905   (691 words)

  
 Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Pennsylvania has more municipalities than any other state in the nation with the exception of Illinois.
We've tried to create a place that will explain the way government in Pennsylvania is organized and provide you with a link to that agency or person if they have a presence on the web.
Applications for Absentee Ballots and Voter Registrations can be obtained at the Hopewell Township office.
www.hopewelltownship.com /government/government.htm   (83 words)

  
 Pittsburgh Family Law Attorney | Pennsylvania Divorce Lawyer | Child Custody Law Firm Butler
At Sweeney Law Offices, we serve clients throughout western Pennsylvania who are seeking effective solutions to complex family matters.
Mildred B. Sweeney is known across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for matters involving divorce, child custody, support, adoption, estate administration, education law and juvenile law.
We are proud to serve the clients of Pittsburgh, Cranberry Township, Butler, Beaver, Wexford, Mars, North Hills and surrounding areas.
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 Hopewell, Pennsylvania PA, township profile (York County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Hopewell is a township in York County, in the York-Hanover metro area.
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Hopewell was $21,611, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Hopewell, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $432.
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 The Sentinel Online - Welcome to Shippensburg
Southampton Township Park, Cumberland County — on Airport Road, has two pavilions and youth playground, a paved half-mile track, two basketball courts, a sand volleyball court, a fitness course, two soccer fields, a 1.5 mile hiking trail and picnic area.
Opossum Lake — recently lowered by 14 feet, this Lower Frankford Township, Cumberland County, lake was restored in April to fishing season, sizes and creel limits while options are explored for building a new dam.
The trail enters Pennsylvania from the north at the Delaware Water Gap and follows the eastern rim of the Alleghenies until it crosses the Cumberland Valley east of Carlisle and follows Children’s Lake in Boiling Springs next to a regional office of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
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 Pictures of the Scudders Falls Expressway (I-95 Western Route)
This is the beginning of the New Jersey section of the Scudders Falls Expressway, I-95 (Western Route) north, crossing the Delaware River on the Scudders Falls Bridge from Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania to Ewing Township, New Jersey.
This is the beginning of the Scudders Falls Expressway, I-95 (Western Route) south, in Hopewell Township, New Jersey.
This was originally meant to be a high-speed, high-capacity ramp from I-95 north, the Scudders Falls Expressway, to I-295 south, the Camden Freeway.
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Probate is the legal process of filing the will with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and having the state recognize the executor of your estate.
If a person did not reside in Pennsylvania, but owned real estate in Pennsylvania, a will may still be probated in the county where the deceased held real estate.
A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania probate lawyer can guide executors, trustees and family members through the often confusing process of probating an estate.
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 My Family
was born on 7 Sep 1881 in HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA.
She was married to JUDGE WILLIAM MACLAY on 22 Dec 1789 in ROCKING SPRING.
She was married to DAVID NOBLE CARLIN on 18 Oct 1910 in PITTSBURG, ALLEGHENY CO., PENNSYLVANIA.
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 Pennsylvania vacation rentals, Pennsylvania rentals , Cyber Rentals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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