Historic Marker Unveiling - Addisville Reformed Church Cemetery & Feaster-Van Horn Cemetery
Northampton Township Plans to Unveil Roadside Markers for Historic Cemeteries
Richboro, PA —
The Northampton Township Historical Commission is unveiling two roadside markers on Saturday, May 30. Markers will be installed at two eighteenth century cemeteries: the Addisville Reformed Church Cemetery on Second Street Pike, adjacent to the Addisville Commons and the Feaster-Van Horn Cemetery on Middle Holland Road, near Council Rock South.
The unveiling will occur at 10:00 AM at Addisville and immediately following the ceremony, the unveiling will occur at Feaster-Van Horn. Parking at Addisville will be available at the adjacent Addisville Commons and along the shoulder of Middle Holland Road at Feaster-Van Horn.
The Historical Commission, as part of their mission to identify and preserve local history and oversee the Township Archives, wanted to share the history of these township-owned properties with the community.
The Addisville Reformed Church Cemetery, also known as the Low Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, is situated at 945 Second Street Pike, across from the Addisville Reformed Church, and adjacent to the Ohev Shalom Synagogue in Richboro. The cemetery contains approximately 228 tombstones, with the earliest being 1774 and the last being in 1889 when the cemetery closed. Jonathan DuBois, the first minister of the Addisville Reformed Church, is buried there. Fifteen (15) stones belong to veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including Isaac Bennet, John Bennet, Benjamin Cornell, Cornelius Corson, John Kroesen, Arthur Lefferts, Gerardus Wynkoop, and Henry Wynkoop.
The Feaster-Van Horn Cemetery, also called the Feaster-Hagaman (Hegeman) Burial Ground, is situated along Middle Holland Road in Holland, Northampton Township. Holland Road was originally known as the “Road to Robert Heaton’s Mill” at Rockville, also called Holland. The cemetery covers about an acre and includes roughly 116 burials, dating from 1748 to 1904. Many of the headstones are dome-shaped, with a few simple rectangular ones. A stone wall surrounds the cemetery. There are about ten (10) American Revolutionary War veteran burials, including several Van Horns, Godfrey Van Duren, Charles Van Duren, and a few Hagermans (Hagamans). One of the last burials was that of George Van Horn, a Civil War veteran.
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