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Levittown, Pennsylvania
Levittown, Pennsylvania

Levittown, extensive, unincorporated suburban housing development in Bucks county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., near the big bend of the Delaware River, approximately midway between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey. It was built between 1951 and 1958 by Levitt & Sons, Inc., who repeated there the planned construction formula that resulted in the development of Levittown, New York, in the late 1940s. The first occupants arrived in June 1952. The name Levittown is now equated with similar developments all across the country.

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