Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
A Bristol Township-based window manufacturer plans to expand in the community.
Okna Windows, which manufactures numerous types of windows and has been in business for close to three decades, is looking to construct a 111,000-square-foot manufacturing and warehouse building at the former Sunbury Farm property. The site is at 2800 Newportville Road near Ford Road in Bristol Township.
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The circa-1700s farmhouse at the site was demolished years ago after the township sold the roughly 9-acre property to a developer for $510,000.
The plan for the Okna Windows’ facility would put the driveway for the new building on Crossings Drive, an abutting industrial area where the company already has a large building, and feature no direct connection to Newportville or Ford roads. The proposed building would have 13 loading bays and two large stormwater areas.
The Bristol Township Zoning Hearing Board will meet to discuss variances for the plan on Monday, February 8 at 7 p.m.
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The Sunbury Farm home various owners since its construction in the early 1700s. The Taylor family owned the home from 1810 until the 1970s. An Bucks County history book from 1905 notes the home was a “fine country seat” for Anthony Taylor Jr., who was at one time the largest land owner in Bucks County with thousands of acres to his name. His son, Caleb Newbold Taylor, lived in the house and gained popularity while serving in Congress after the civil war. By 1894, the property was at more than 400 acres.
Rumors throughout the years state that Caleb Taylor and the figure of a woman in a white dress with a blue sash haunt the mansion. Just down the road, the ghosts of two horse thieves who were hanged during the Revolutionary War reportedly haunt the area.
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