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Presidents’ Day

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Presidents’ Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February to honor all persons who served as President of the United States. The day is also a state holiday in most states where 15 different names are used including Presidents’ Day, President’s Day, and Washington’s and/or Lincoln’s Birthday.

Numerous U.S. presidents have had a presence in Bucks County throughout history:
• General George Washington and men of the Continental Army billeted in Doylestown on their way to the Battle of Monmouth, NJ.
• John Quincy Adams (on right) visited James Biddle’s Greek Revival estate, Andalusia, along the Delaware River.
• Although loyalists at Lumberville’s Black Bass Hotel had turned away General Washington, years later Grover Cleveland (on left) stayed there many times.

• The Perkasie home of Pearl S. Buck, philanthropist and Nobel Prize-winning author, displays gifts and letters from John Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
• Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush each paid visits to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown.
• Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Joe Biden all visited Bucks County, a key battleground during their election campaigns.
Source: bucks.happeningmag.com/presidents-bucks-county

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