Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in New Hope, PA

New Hope is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, lying on the west bank of the Delaware River at its confluence with Aquetong Creek, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia.

The town began as a ferry crossing: John Wells started running a ferry here in 1722, and the settlement became famous as Coryell's Ferry, the halfway stop on the Old York Road between Philadelphia and New York.

George Washington crossed the Delaware at Coryell's Ferry on December 13, 1776, and Continental troops passed through the settlement repeatedly during the Revolutionary War.

After a devastating 1790 fire destroyed several mills, mill owner Benjamin Parry rebuilt them and the village took the name New Hope in a spirit of optimism about its recovery.

New Hope was incorporated as a borough on April 26, 1837.

The 60-mile Delaware Canal runs through the center of the borough, and its towpath — now part of Delaware Canal State Park — follows the last continuously intact towpath canal route from America's canal-building era.

The two-lane New Hope–Lambertville Bridge carries cars and pedestrians across the Delaware River to Lambertville, New Jersey, and tourism is the borough's primary industry.

The Bucks County Playhouse, one of America's most prestigious regional theaters, opened in 1939 in a converted gristmill on the river, and Main Street's Logan Inn dates to 1727.

In the early 1900s New Hope became a celebrated artists' colony, and native son Joseph Pickett painted scenes of the village during that era.

New Hope had 2,612 residents at the 2020 census, packed into just 1.4 square miles, and recent Census survey data counts roughly 1,330 households averaging only about 2 people each, with a median household income around $175,000.