Adams Hollow Creek
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}
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| subdivision_name3 = Bucks
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| subdivision_name4 = Bristol
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| progression = Adams Hollow Creek → Delaware River → Delaware Bay
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Wood Street
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U.S. Route 13
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Adams Hollow Creek is a short tributary of the Delaware River meeting with it just upstream from Mill Creek in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
History
Former communities on the east side of the creek, Harriman and Pine Grove are now part of Bristol Borough.{{cite web |url=http://tourbristol.org/tour/adams-hollow-creek/ |title=Adams Hollow Creek |website=Tour Bristol Borough |date= 26 June 2012|access-date=2023-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608011143/https://tourbristol.org/tour/adams-hollow-creek/ |archive-date=2023-06-08}}
The bridge carrying Radcliffe Street was built in 1911 to replace the former King's Bridge.{{cite journal |journal=Municipal Journal |volume=XXXI |date=July–December 1911 |issue=12 |page=396 |publisher=Municipal Journal and Engineer |location=New York, NY |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_public-works_1911-09-20_31_12/page/396/mode/2up |title=Bridges |quote=Bristol, Pa.—Work will shortly begin replacing old King’s bridge over Adams Hollow Creek, boundary line between Bristol Borough and Bristol Township, with concrete span of 60 ft.}}
Crossings and bridges
- Radcliffe Street - NBI Structure Number 7158, bridge is {{convert|22|ft|m}} long, 2 lane, single span, steel stringer-multi-beam or girder, concrete cast-in-place deck, built 1911.{{cite web |title=RADCLIFFE STREET over ADAMS HOLLOW CREEK |url=http://www.uglybridges.com/ |website=uglybridges.com |access-date=8 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150424175447/http://uglybridges.com/1459001 |archive-date=2015-04-24 |first=James |last=Baughn}}
See also
References
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External links
- http://www.buckscounty.org/government/ParksandRecreation/Parks/SilverLake
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Category:Rivers of Bucks County, Pennsylvania