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History. William Doyle's 18th Century Inn, founded at the intersection of the Philadelphia to Easton, and Swedsford to Coryell's Ferry roads, was the seed that bloomed into the town now known as Doylestown. As a major crossroads in a largely agricultural area, Doylestown became a central village in the County, leading to its designation as the ...
Mayor Not Available Joseph B. Weaver (b.1825 - d.1886) 1870-1872 5 Mayor Not Available Abel H. Pursell (b.1821 - d.1898 ) 1872-1873 6 Mayor Not Available Joseph Benjamin Weaver (b.1825 - d.1886) 1874 7 Mayor Not Available William G. Bigelow (b.1841 - d.1927) 1874-1881 8 Mayor Not Available Joseph Benjamin Weaver (b.1825 - d.1886) 1882-1883 9 Mayor
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Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census , the borough population was 8,300. Doylestown is located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Trenton , 25 miles (40 km) north of Center City Philadelphia , and 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Allentown .
The borough’s origins traced back to William Doyle (1712-1800), a tavern keeper of Irish ancestry. Doyle’s home sat adjacent to Dyers Mill Road, a north-south route established in 1722, which ran from Philadelphia to Easton (and later became Route 611). In 1730, a new east-west route (later Route 202) was established that ran from Coryell ...
Doylestown Historical Society (Doylestown, Pa.) Abstract: The area now known as Doylestown (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) was given to Edward Doyle as a land grant from William Penn in 1692. Doylestown became the county seat of Bucks County in 1812, and the area flourished when a railroad line was completed between Doylestown and Philadelphia in ...
Currently serving as the Doylestown branch of the Bucks County (Pa.) Free Library, the Melinda Cox Library was Doylestown's first free library. It opened in 1917 through a bequest of Doylestown resident Charles Cox (1832-1914) who left his entire estate to create a community library named after his mother, Melinda Hines Cox (1803-1890).
