Buckingham Friends Quaker Meetinghouse (http://www.buckinghamfriendsmeeting.org) Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm (http://www.barleysheaf.com) "The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, the original New Hope B&B, is immersed in layers of history dating back many hundreds of years. The land was home to the Lenni Lenape Indians who survived here until 1775 when the last of the natives fled westward to escape the influences of "war and rum." The town of Holicong itself is named after a natural spring located on the property known as the Konkey Hole. Native American legend holds that a tribesman dropped a sheaf of barley into the deep, cavernous limestone spring, and it resurfaced over three miles away at the Ingham Spring. Another story claims it was a native American and not a sheaf of barley that made this trip. Yet another claims that it was a deer that jumped into the depths of the spring. In any case, the waters are deep and rich and they are the source of our drinking water here at the Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm." "The current owners Christine and Noel Figueroa are particularly proud of the Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, as an example of an adaptive reuse of a large old property, proving that it is possible to preserve and restore an old farm and make it self-sustaining and profitable, without the need to subdivide and develop the land. The Inn at Barley Sheaf Farm, a New Hope inn, is quintessential Bucks County and represents the finest of Bucks County history and heritage." |