Township News
1/23/2012 4:06 PM
Snow Time...
1/23/2012 4:06 PM
New Township Administration Office Hours
1/23/2012 4:06 PM
2012 Township Meeting Schedule
Stormwater Management View more information about understanding stormwater and how it can affect your money, safety, heath, and the environment!
Call Before You Dig Call 811 before your dig, or 1-800-242-1776 if out of Pennsylvania. Check www.paonecall.org for more info.
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Township News
Snow Time...
Posted: 1/23/2012 4:06 PM
Attention Residents: With snow season once again upon us, we would like to remind all residents to remove their vehicles from the street so that our Public Works personnel can get through with the Township...
New Township Administration Office Hours
Posted: 1/23/2012 4:06 PM
Effective January 1, 2012, the new hours for the Township Administration offices are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM. Note that the Parks and Recreation Office will retain their original hours of 8:30...
2012 Township Meeting Schedule
Posted: 1/23/2012 4:06 PM
Meeting Notice The Upper Southampton Township Board of Supervisors will meet at 6:00 PM for Workshop meetings at the Upper Southampton Township Administration Building, 1st Floor Meeting Room, 939 Street Road, Southampton, PA, and at...
Meeting Minutes & Agendas
Posted: 1/23/2012 4:06 PM
To view the latest meeting minutes and agendas, please visit the Meeting Minutes & Agenda page . Please note that Minutes for 2010 and prior can be found under Meeting Minutes & Agendas on the...
NEW TAX COLLECTOR FOR 2011 EARNED INCOME & LOCAL SERVICES TAXES
Posted: 1/23/2012 4:04 PM
New Tax Collector for 2011 Earned Income Tax (EIT) and 2011 Local Service Tax (LST) A notification letter of recent changes has been sent to Township taxpayers from Keystone Collections Group. Any authenticity concerns can...
2012 Proposed Budget
Posted: 11/16/2011 3:04 PM
To view the 2012 Proposed Budget, please click here.
Medication Drop Box Now at the Township!
Posted: 10/3/2011 4:54 PM
The Upper Southampton Township Police Department is now able to accept all of your unwanted prescription drugs. This includes ov er-the-counter drugs, vitamins, samples, even your pet’s medications! See box for details on what is...
ATTENTION RESIDENTS: New Yard Waste Disposal Information
Posted: 5/3/2011 11:05 AM
As in years past, the Yard Waste Collection Program runs from April 1st through December 15th. During the program dates, Yard waste is collected the day following your regular recycle day. During this time, there...
Southampton Creek Ecosystem Restoration
Posted: 10/13/2010 12:57 PM
The Army Corps of Engineers has created a Southampton Creek Restoration Project webpage which can be accessed using the following link: http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Projects/screek/index.html There is a presentation available for download. There are also a few links...
History of Southampton, PA
Southampton, PA is a namesake of Southampton, England, the seaport from which adventurous followers of William Penn sailed to the Province of Pennsylvania. By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General. Southampton's boundaries at that time extended eastward to Bensalem, and it was not until 1929 that the township was divided into Upper Southampton and Lower Southampton.
In order to ensure peaceful coexistence with the Indians residing in this region, Penn purchased the land with wampum and other valuable commodities including items of clothing, fish hooks, axes, knives and other useful tools. The area between the Pennypack and Neshaminy Creeks, encompassing Southampton Township, was conveyed by the Lenni-Lenape Chief Tamanend to William Penn by Deed dated June 23,1683.
Many of the first English settlers were Quakers who fled religious persecution, and it was a group of dissident Quakers who joined with members of the Pennypack (a.k.a. Lower Dublin) Baptist Church to form the Southampton Baptist Church, which was constituted in 1746. Dutch colonists arrived in Southampton in the 1700's - the Vandikes, Vansandts, Vanartsdalens, Cornells, Krewsons and Hogelands - who migrated south from Long Island, New York and settled in Smoketown, later to be called Churchville after the North and Southampton Reformed Chruch erected on Bristol Road. The churchyards adjacent to the Southampton Baptist and North and Southampton Reformed Churches contain graves of patriots who fought in the Revolutionary War.