How did Langhorne Water Works Run in Pennsylvania get its name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Langhorne Water Works Run, the people who settled around it, and the industry rising upon it.
Spring stream rising in Langhorne Manor on the old Langhorne Brick Company property. After flowing southeastwardly through the southwest edge of the Manor, it crosses the New York Branch of the Reading Railway into Middletown Township, turns abruptly southwestward and empties into Neshaminy Creek near Parkland.
The stream was first named Chub Run from its abundance of fish commonly called river chub. Chub Run has the distinction of being the stream upon which the first grist mill in Bucks County was built by James Heaton. This old mill, whose clattering wheels in 1682 sounded the first industrial note in the profound silence of the primaeval forest, played an important part in the county’s early provincial history and gave a clue in identifying the site of the Indian town called Playwicky. The stream’s name was changed about 1890, when Langhorne Spring Water Company was organized.