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Gallows Run
| Gallows Run sometimes called Gallows
Hill Run. It has many rivulet tributaries in Nockamixon and
Springfield Townships. The main stream rises in Springfield,
near Stony Point school house on Bursonville Road.
 | William J. Buck suggested the name Gallows was from the
finding of the dead body of a man, suspended from a limb of a
tree on Gallows Hill. |
| Librarian Warren S. Ely claimed that Edward Marshall the
Indian Purchase walker of 1737, broke his gallowses in jumping
across the run. |
| Joseph E. Sandford, suggests that, inasmuch as Joseph
Galloway was interested in land tracts in Durham Township that
Gallows Run is short for Galloways Run. |
In a plan of Nockamixon Township in Noll's Atlas of Bucks
County (1891), this stream is named Kintnersville Creek from
Revere to its mouth at the Delaware, and Gallows Run is marked as
though it were a tributary to Kintnersville Creek, this name is
not sanctioned by any other maps.
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| 1. Place Names in Bucks County
1942, Compiled by George MacReynolds, Page 170 |
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