Timeline 1680 – 1920
External Influences
Lives and Events at Silver Lake
1681
Pennsylvania Chartered
1687
Silver Lake Bucks County Construction
1734
European Migration West of Susquehanna River
1741
William Penn’s Sons Land Grant to William Passmore
Includes the lands of present day Silver Lake.
1749
Creation of York County
Partitioned from Lancaster County
1776
Ratification of the Declaration of Independence
1786
Harmon Grist Mill in Operation
1789
Inauguration of George Washington
1797 – 1852
Kaufman Family Ownership
Mill, Land , Silver Lake
1797
South Point School Founded
1812
Jacob & Christina Kaufman’s Stone Mansion
1832
Incorporation of Lewisberry Borough
1846-48
Gen. Winfield Scott’s Success in the Mexican-American War
1847
Winfield Scott Hammond’s Birth
1852
Andrew Cline Acquires Mill, Land, Silver Lake
1856 -63
Boyhood Memories of Winfield Scott Hammond
As recounted in 1925
1861
Start of U.S. Civil War
1862
Lewis Cline Joins Union Army, Wounded at Antietam
1865
Winfield Scott Hammond Joins Union Army
1865
Grant’s Victory Over Lee and End of U.S. Civil War
1866
William Grant Stonesifer’s Birth
1870-1920
Emergence of Good Roads Movement
1880-1920
Golden Age of U.S. Amusement Parks
1882
Lewis Cline Inherits the Mill, Land, Silver Lake
1890-1900
The City Beautiful Movement
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt’s Presidency
1913