Bushkill
BUSHKILL (Dutch: little river), 20.6 m. (641 alt., 300 pop.), a village of white clapboard houses and small hotels at the confluence of Little Bushkill and Big Bushkill Creeks, was settled in 1812.
Southwest of Bushkill, Big Bushkill Creek (R) has been dammed at intervals to form swimming pools; dirt roads branch off to lakes encircled with woods and summer cottages.
The MIDDLE SMITHFIELD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 24.8 m., in the middle of a cemetery on a green knoll, is a two-and-a-half-story white clapboard structure with a belfry, erected in 1833.
The mountainous character of the country gives way to rolling fields.
Taken from Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State, Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania. New York: Oxford University Press, 1940.
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