Riegelsville, Pennsylvania
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 Signs on the approach for the Riegelsville Bridge denoting entrance into Riegelsville. The Riegelsville Inn can be seen in the background.
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| County | Bucks |
| Elevation | 151 ft (46.0 m) |
| Coordinates | 40°35′44″N 75°11′44″W / 40.59556°N 75.19556°WCoordinates: 40°35′44″N 75°11′44″W / 40.59556°N 75.19556°W |
| Area | 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km2) |
| - land | 1.0 sq mi (3 km2) |
| - water | 0.1 sq mi (0 km2), 10% |
| Population | 868 (2010) |
| Density | 867.8/sq mi (335.1/km2) |
| Mayor | Gregory Stokes |
| Timezone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP Code | 18077 |
| Area code | 610 Exchange: 749 |
 Location of Riegelsville in Bucks County
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  Location of Riegelsville in Pennsylvania
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| Website: Riegelsville | |
Riegelsville is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 868 at the 2010 census.
Benjamin Riegel founded Riegelsville. The original, and now historic, Riegelsville Inn that he built in 1838 still stands. This historic stone inn has offered food and lodging to Bucks County travelers for over 160 years. The community was named for the Riegel family, as early landowners; they established paper mills across the river in New Jersey.
With the completion of the Delaware Canal in 1832, the lands along the Delaware River attracted great industrial development. The movement of coal, a major important product of the area, brought capital & investment to Easton. Boats carried coal, stone, iron, crops and goods from the mills along the 60 miles from Easton to Bristol. Along Canal Street grew one of the largest industrial manufacturing centers of America during the 1830s and 1840s. Easton continued to prosper as a center for industry, manufacturing, commerce, and culture at the Forks of the Delaware and along the great rail lines. Riegelsville prospered when the Delaware Canal opened in 1832 with warehouses and factories lining its banks. The canal closed in 1931 after 99 years of service and was replaced by the railroads. Today, Riegelsville is a peaceful and quiet town. Woods and fields border the Delaware Canal; remnants of crumbling stone foundations along its banks are reminders of a busy past.
Riegelsville, Pennsylvania was a mill town in the late 1880s and 1900s. The borough overlooks the Delaware River spanned by the 1904 the Riegelsville Bridge built by John A. Roebling's Sons, Co. It is one of the approximately three dozen bridges spanning the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Residences near the river built by Riegel Paper Company executives in the late 1880s along "Mansions Row" have been restored.
The Benjamin Riegel House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), of which, 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (5.71%) is water.
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