How did Little Buckingham Mountain in Pennsylvania get it’s name? This page provides a brief history about Little Buckingham Mountain in Pennsylvania, the people who settled on it, and the industry rising around it.
Part of a range of hills which includes Solebury and Buckingham Mountains, extending from Delaware River below New Hope to Doylestown. It lies between Buckingham Valley to the northeast and Furlong to the southwest and is well named Little Buckingham on Geological Survey maps, as it is quite similar in characteristics to its more imposing neighbor, Buckingham Mountain, to the northeast. Like its neighbor it is much steeper on its northwest than on its southeast slope. Its elevation is about 865 feet. Formerly it was known as Beals Hill and it is so marked on the historical map accompanying Colonel Henry D. Paxson’s brochure on Washington Crossing (1926). The Beal family were early owners of land in Buckingham Township, John Beal having acquired 298 acres there by 1787. The marriage of John Beal in May, 1773, is recorded in John Dyer’s Diary. From this family the hill received its earliest name. Later adjacent land was owned by Gustavus Cox and it was then called Coxs Mountain. Both names, Beals Hill and Coxs Mountain, are often still applied to it. The hill is a bit of wild territory in central Bucks County still preserved in its virgin beauty. What is said to have been a rich vein of iron ore on the Cox farm was once worked, but the ore was insufficient in quantity for profitable mining.