Category: News
4th Graders from Titus Elementary Visit Aldie Mansion
4th Graders at Titus Elementary School in Central Bucks recently spent the day at historic Aldie Mansion for a hands-on educational experience with Heritage Conservancy. This spring marked the third…
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Hart’s Woods: The History of Our First Public Preserve
Some legacies are measured in decades. Hart’s Woods Preserve is measured in centuries. Tucked along New Britain Road in Doylestown, Hart’s Woods is Heritage Conservancy’s first preserve, and its story…
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Protecting the Headwaters: A New Conservation Easement in Upper Mount Bethel Township
Heritage Conservancy’s conservation successes keep rolling in 2026! In April, Heritage Conservancy partnered with Upper Mount Bethel Township’s Open Space Advisory Board to facilitate a conservation easement on 32.8 acres…
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Added to our Register of Historic Places: Warrington Volunteer Fire Company No.1
Built by community volunteers starting in 1933 and dedicated in 1935, the Warrington Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 firehouse has been officially added to the Heritage Conservancy Register of Historic…
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From Lawn to Life: Benjamin Franklin Middle School Students Create a Native Pollinator Garden
This past spring, a group of 6th and 7th grade students at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Levittown transformed a section of an interior courtyard, once all lawn, into a…
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82 Acres Permanently Preserved in Williams Township
Heritage Conservancy has started the year with another conservation success! In December 2025 and March 2026, Heritage Conservancy partnered with Williams Township’s Land Preservation Board to protect 82 adjoining acres…
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Jere Knight: Conservation Advocate of Bucks County
When you walk the Jere Knight Trail at Heritage Conservancy’s Fuller-Pursell Nature Preserve, you’re walking in the footsteps of a woman who spent decades helping people and the environment. To…
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Heritage Conservancy Trains a New Crop of Environmental Educators
Front row from left: Lucas Denton, Megan Myers, Mia Hibbs, and Kate Brenton, back row, from left: Chip Bosch, Tate Pronel, Michaela Yaede, Emma Craven, Andrew Cyr, Garland Lamb, and…
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Motus Tower Update: Where Have the Birds Gone?
Science has come a long way since we discovered wildlife migration and debunked the myth that birds hibernate under the ground like their cold-blooded relatives. However, wildlife migration ecology is…
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Say Hello to the Naturemobile!
You might start noticing a bright minivan out on the roads, it’s hard to miss. What was once a plain white Toyota Sienna hybrid has been transformed into a mobile…
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Visit Bethlehem A.M.E. Church in Langhorne: Buck’s County’s Oldest Black Church
Founded in 1809, Bethlehem AME Church in Langhorne is proud to be “the oldest house of worship established by People of Color in Bucks County” and the third oldest Black…
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From Pump House to Bat House: Creative Reuse at Croydon Woods
An abandoned groundwater decontamination facility was scheduled for demolition at our Croydon Woods Nature Preserve. But thanks to our Science and Stewardship team, it’s now becoming a bat house. A…
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Historic Aldie Mansion
85 Old Dublin Pike
Doylestown, PA 18901
