Fallsington

This 300-year-old Quaker village features over 90 buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries. In more recent times steel was king, as evidenced by U.S. Steel’s enormous Fairless Works. The steel-making complex was built in 1953 on the Delaware River, where water for cooling, wastewater and shipping was readily available. Nearby Levittown, a planned community designed to house factory and mill workers (and now a bedroom community of Philadelphia), helped attract waves of post-war immigrants, some migrating here from the declining coal and manufacturing regions at the northern end of the D&L Trail.
 
The Fallsington-area landscape dramatically changed in the 20th century. In canal days, before the 1930s when it ceased operation, this region was predominantly agricultural-except for a narrow strip of industrial and commercial activities along the canal itself. But due to its proximity to Philadelphia, Trenton and the eastern metropolitan corridor, the land became too valuable to keep in crops, and quickly turned into suburbia.