The document summarizes several passages from a local history book about the towns of Sellersville and Perkasie in Pennsylvania. It notes details that seem to conflict with the official histories of the towns, such as the locations of buildings and landmarks being different than currently claimed. It questions how these details could be possible without acknowledgements of relocations of the towns that are still denied. The document aims to highlight evidence that significant historical events involving uranium in the area have been omitted from local histories.

1. The following is the first in a series of forthcoming blog entries highlighting some interesting items from various
publications written over the years pertaining to the Sellersville and Perkasie areas. Seemingly insignificant
and most likely overlooked by many readers, they represent a small portion of the documented (albeit cryptic)
evidence of the still-unacknowledged historical events that have occurred in these municipalities. Each entry
will also be submitted to the respective local historical “authorities” to address the italicized questions.
Oscar Schoup
From pages 298-299 of Sellersville, PA – A Tapestry Through Time, by Timothy Hufnagle:
In his weekly “Reminiscences of Sellersville” column written and published throughout 1988 in the Perkasie
News Herald, James J. Hackett--a then Sellersville area resident for over sixty years who was knowledgeable
about the town's history--writes about a local Sellersville volunteer firefighter from the 1920s: “Oscar
(Schoup)...lived in a small house east of the Harvey Clymer milk plant at Diamond Street and Clymer Avenue,
close to where the gate of the new Ametek plant beckons. When that siren sounded in non-working hours, Oscar
would come storming through the fields & head for the fire house via Hughes Avenue. He wore knee boots for
his route would carry him through the creek. Oscar could have taken the dry route west on Clymer and north on
Diamond. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and he took it on a bee-line pace. Just as
90 feet is a miracle number in baseball and is the distance between the bases to create all those close calls,
the distance from the Schoup house to the fire house was as closely conceived.”
Commentary: The alleged 1920s location of Sellersville's fire company #1 (active 1888 thru late 1920s) is
represented by the green dot on the below map. Sellersville's present fire company (active late 1920s thru today)
is noted by the red dot. The alleged 1920s location of Sellersville's fire company #2 (active 1911 thru early
1920s) is noted by the yellow dot. The black dot within the orange circle represents the 1920s location of the
Schoup residence as was described by Mr. Hackett (and verified in U.S. Census data), along with a 90-foot
radius in each direction therefrom. Oscar's route from his house to the fire house was, as stated, approximately
90 feet. Additionally, to get there, he had to wade through the creek.
Given the above information, coupled with the below illustration and the continued denial of any municipal
relocations, how exactly could the above scenario have been possible?

2. Willet & Clymer
The Willet & Clymer “Brickyard” was originally part of the 40+ acre Everhart estate, sold to Dr. Everhart by one
of the countless Wambold entities in the 1800s. This tract of land ran along the Perkiomen Creek and was
inclusive of the original Wambold mill that was demolished (as is documented in newspapers and other
literature) circa 1909. Said “brickyard” was sold in the same time period to Weston Dodson. Sellersville's 1913
Sanborn Map lists the Weston Dodson Brickyard as being “Located ¾ mile S.E. of P.O. (outside borough
limits).”
The above measurements are illustrated below on a 2016 ESRI map using ArcGIS software:

3. This, along with the 1908 Sanborn Map location description for Willet & Clymer (½ mile east of Sellersville
proper) and the alleged borough boundaries at that time, places said “brickyard” between the two “.75 Miles”
dots on the above map. This would be part of the infamous “Brickyard Row” area (i.e. Radium Co. of America)
that has conveniently been omitted from Sellersville's local history accounts due to the still-undisclosed
uranium-related activities that occurred there. Either way, this is not the U.S. National Guard location on Park
Avenue that is claimed today to be where this “brickyard” once stood.
In the absence of any municipal realignments, how exactly can these measurements and designated map
locations be explained?
*USGS: “Sellersville Post Office (Historical)”
The first location of Sellersville's Post Office is noted in various historical works as being the location of Sellers'
Tavern (in the town's center and north of the creek). USGS datum coordinates have recently been discovered
denoting a “Sellersville Post Office (historical)” location. Said historical location is noted by the United States
Geological Survey as being in the present-day southern portion of Sellersville on Clymer Avenue, southeast of
today's downtown Sellersville area and consistent with the continuously-denied pre-1911 placement of the
borough.
*This is repeated from another blog entry but is included here for continuity purposes.
Again, how can this be explained legitimately without acknowledging the relocations that occurred?
Additional Items of Interest from Tapestry... (for those who may have access to the book)
Pages 6, 23, and 224
The Washington House is shown in a picture on page 6 from Sellersville's 1914 “Old Home Week” celebration
with the Abraham Cressman home adjacent on the left-hand side. Said home was built circa 1875. A picture of

4. the Washington House on page 23, said to be “ca. 1910,” has a vacant lot adjacent on its left-hand side.
Furthermore, a 1912 picture of the Cressman home is displayed on page 224 showing the “remodeling” of the
front facade of the residence, which does not match-up with the aforementioned 1914 picture.
As an additional note, “Old Home Week” was celebrated in Sellersville in 1914--five years after the documented
(yet still-unacknowledged) discovery of pitchblende (uranium) in Sellersville. This was also three years after the
1911 municipal relocation occurred and one year after formal work began at the “Radium Company of
America.” Sellersville's Board of Trade even initiated a confident slogan to go along with this time period:
“Investigate Sellersville...” A corresponding emblem was created and utilized for decades after:
Page 32
A portion of Rockhill Township (in the vicinity of Sellersville along the Bethlehem Pike) is described in a 1783
newspaper article as “a devastated tract of woods, probably 2000 acres in extent” where “the trees had all been
destroyed by an iron-foundry which fell to ruin when the owners had used up all their wood.”
Page 41
As published in the January 31, 1895 edition of The Central News regarding Sellersville's high school: “The
graduates of the school have had no difficulty in getting positions in this and other counties of the State, and a
diploma from the Sellersville High School insures entrance into the Medical and Law Departments of the
University of Pennsylvania without examination.”
Page 59
One of many historical “photo-shopped” pictures of the Sellersville area is shown with obvious cut-and-pasted
sections and painted-on portions. This particular one was allegedly of North Main Street.
Pages 62 – 63
The pre- and post-”Main Street Realignment” Sanborn Map illustrations do not match up in the areas that ideally
would have been “untouched” by said realignment.
Page 78
The sharp curve leading to the “original intersection of Bethlehem Pike and Ridge Road” conforms to road
locations and directional placements that match up exactly with what the roads' positioning prior to the
northwestern relocation would have been.

5. Pages 85 – 97
The “photo essay” seems to have been organized to depict the path of the trolley prior to the relocation of the
borough--not just the realignment of the tracks.
Pages 170 and 181
Pictures of Fireman's Hall, both from June 1919, show identical buildings but different adjacent structures.
Page 237
Homes surrounding U.S. Gauge Plant #1 are noted to be built in 1907. Bucks County records for the (alleged)
same properties state that they were constructed in 1920.
Page 263
The building on the left is Sellersville's original public school that was supposedly “remodeled” and became the
building on the right (present home of the Sellersville Museum). The rear portion of the “remodeled” building is
alleged to be the original school, despite the fact that the dimensions don't equate and said portion appears to be
an addition to the updated building (not the other way around). Regardless, the claimed “remodeling” of various
buildings, schools, and churches whose before-and-after pictures do not even remotely match up is a common
occurrence in both Sellersville and Perkasie historical accounts. There are also references in other writings to
buildings being uprooted from their foundations, put on rollers, and moved to new locations, which--when
presented to various historians for inquiry--were declared a mystery.
Page 349
Mr. Hackett's commentary regarding the “Sellersville Estates” real estate subdivision created in the early 1920s:
“...if a person bought a lot, there was one free – but not next to the one the buyer selected – but at some other
location on the plan. The course of human events quickly, and doggedly as time went on, created a nightmare of
insureable ownership.”
Finally, the author's strategic usage of “present-day,” “site of,” and the “#” preceding select street names,
locations, and numerical addresses respectively allows for the specific historical locations of the properties being
addressed to remain unclear.
Hufnagle, Timothy D. Sellersville, PA: A Tapestry Through Time, 1738-2013. Sellersville, PA: Sellersville Historical and Achievement Authority [printed
by Josten Books, Clarksville, TN], 2013. Screen-shots of map imagery copyrighted in full or in part by DigitalGlobe, U.S.G.S., USDA Farm Service
Agency, Google 2016, ArcGIS, and ESRI. Publisher copyrights have expired for material printed prior to January 1, 1923. “Fair use” is supported by
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976.

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