Pineville, Pennsylvania

The Village of Pineville is a small village in Buckingham Township,Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Historically, it was considered part of Wrightstown Township, however, the Township borders were shifted at an unknown historical time.

The Name

Pineville was known as "The Pines" a century ago, (around 1776) and was called by this name for many years, due to a growth of thrifty pine trees in the area. Seventy years ago it was called "Pinetown," (around 1806) and consisted of a stone store-house adjoining a frame dwelling, kept by Jacob Heston, near the site of Jesse P. Carver's store. The dwelling house and tailor-shop of William Trego stood on the point between the Centreville turnpike and the Buckingham road. (Jesse S. Heston kept store in the bar-room of the present tavern).

Pineville was so named from a cluster of pine trees that stood about 150 yards south ofthe crossroads. These trees were cut down about 1846. The forging of the iron work for thecounty jail at Doylestown, erected in 1812, was done at Pineville. The iron was hauled fromBethlehem in farm wagons. [from research ofDonald R. Repsher - HISTORICAL REMINISCENCES OF PINEVILLE AND VICINITY]

=The Breeches=Isaac Colton, a bound boy of Jesse Heston, grandfather of Jesse S. Heston, Newtown, was the last person to wear leather breeches in the vicinity of Pineville. This was about 1800-1810. When he wore them to school he was the butt of the other boys' jokes.

=The Landmarks=Another dwelling, and David Stogdale's farm house, with a school-house near the present store, and removed in 1842, completed the village. It had neither tavern, wheelwright, nor blacksmith. The post-office was established after 1830, with Samuel Tomlinson the first postmaster, when the name was formally changed to Pineville. The first tavern, licensed in 1835 or 1836, was kept by Tomlinson, after having been for several years previously a temperance house. It now contains about twenty five dwellings. John Thompson kept store at the Pines before the Revolution; he also owned a mill on the Neshaminy.

=Today=Pineville remains a quiet residential village; it received its first and only traffic light in ~2000.

from: "HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time" by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., Democrat Book and Job Office Print., Doylestown, PA, 1876.