New Hope Historians Announce Memorial Day Weekend Tribute Tour

NEW HOPE, PA — The New Hope Historical Society will honor those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield in defense of their country during a Memorial Day weekend walking tour on Saturday, May 25.

The tribute will be the highlight of the Historical Society’s bi-weekly Walking Tour of Historic New Hope, which begins at 1 p.m.

“We will discuss two significant monuments in New Hope honoring our fallen soldiers,” noted Roy Ziegler, a member of the Historical Society’s Board of Directors and past president. “One pays tribute to Private Edgar H. Denson who died in France in World War I. The other memorial is the bridge over Stockton Avenue, now named for Staff Sergeant Karol Raymond Bauer, a 28-year-old United States Marine who was killed in action leading his platoon in a raid on Quang Tri Province in Vietnam on April 30, 1967.

The tour will also include stops along important sites from the Revolutionary War, and a discussion of the Civil War cannon that is placed next to the World War I memorial in the center of New Hope.

The tour begins at 1 p.m. on the back porch of the Parry Mansion Museum at 45 S. Main Street in New Hope. Tours are free for members of the New Hope Historical Society and for children under 12 years old. There is a $10 admission for adult non-members.