National Register Listing

Yardley Historic District

Roughly bounded by Main St., Afton Ave., Letchworth Ave., Canal St., S. Edgewater Ave., and Delaware Canal, Yardley, PA
Local significance of the district:
Transportation; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

The first successful commercially produced automobile in America was built in Philadelphia in 1895 by the Duryea brothers.