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Hewitt Covered BridgeHewitt Covered Bridge · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0
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History · Southampton Township

19% of Southampton Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Hewitt Covered Bridge. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1927 on.

1on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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What stands out about Southampton Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Southampton Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Elbinsville
1852–1922
Chaneysville
1855–1938
Beans Cove
1872–1906
Hewitt
1897–1907
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Beans CoveChaneysvilleElbinsvilleHewitt
Gone or out of use
Beans Cove Post Officepost officeRagged Mountain AirportairportWalnut Grove Schoolschool
11cemeteries and burying grounds inside Southampton Township
Beans Cove Methodist ChurchChaneysville MethodistEl - Bethel Assembly of GodMount HopeMount Zion ChristianOakdalePerdewProsperityRice - Wilson FamilyRubySeven Dolors Catholic

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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Start Southampton Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Southampton Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Southampton Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Southampton Township.

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Southampton, Pennsylvania is a namesake of Southampton, England, from where the followers of William Penn set sail to the Province of Pennsylvania. By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania, drafted by Thomas Holme, Pennsylvania's Surveyor General.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Southampton Township, 1852 to 1950

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1852Post officeThe Elbinsville post office opens
  3. 1855Post officeThe Chaneysville post office opens
  4. 1872Post officeThe Beans Cove post office opens
  5. 1891In the archiveAtlas of Bucks Co., Penna
  6. 20th century
  7. 1906Post officeThe Beans Cove post office closes
  8. 1922Post officeThe Elbinsville post office closes
  9. 1927On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  10. 1938Post officeThe Chaneysville post office closes
  11. 1950Born hereHenry G. Ulrich III is born here
By decade

Southampton Township, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1890s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1890s1 item
Atlas of Bucks Co., Penna1891Atlas of Bucks Co., PennaMap
1900s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today5 recent
Upper Southampton Township, PA municipal building and library, Dec. 20252025Upper Southampton Township, PA municipal building and…Southampton, PA Fire Company No. 1, Dec. 20252025Southampton, PA Fire Company No. 1, Dec. 2025BG Community Center 19912021BG Community Center 1991Southampton, PA2016Southampton, PASouthampton Baptist Church PA 012012Southampton Baptist Church PA 01
On the map

Southampton Township on the map, 1927 to 1973

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Southampton Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Southampton Township on the 1927 USGS mapSouthampton Township on the 1931 USGS mapSouthampton Township on the 1944 USGS mapSouthampton Township on the 1967 USGS mapSouthampton Township on the 1973 USGS map1927Hyndman sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Southampton Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Southampton Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Hewitt Covered Bridge
Hewitt Covered Bridge
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Burr Truss1
Hewitt Covered BridgeBurr Truss

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Cumberland Valley TownshipIts storyB+Mann TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townColerain TownshipIts storyB−Monroe TownshipIts storyB−

Questions about Southampton Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Southampton Township?

One place: the Hewitt Covered Bridge (listed 1980).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.