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In 1745 William Doyle built a tavern at a crossroads in the wilderness. There are many narratives that tell the history from then to now.
The name “Doylestown” was apparently derived from the innkeeper William Doyle who obtained a license to keep a public house in 1745 known as “Doyle’s Tavern”. This building, once the Fountain House and currently a Starbucks, is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Main and State streets in Doylestown Borough.
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Dec 18, 2013 · In 1745 the town was officially founded when the Doyles family built an inn, resulting in the town being referred to early on as "William Doyle's Tavern" and "Doyle's Town." William Doyle went on ...
- Frank Dolski
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 ...
In March 1745, William Doyle, an Irish settler, obtained a license to build a tavern, then known as William Doyle's Tavern, on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell's Ferry Road at present-day Main and State Streets.
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Mar 25, 2012 · Purchasing land in the 1730s Edward Doyle and his sons William and Clement moved here from along the Delaware River and by 1775 William Doyle obtained his first tavern license for a site on West Court Street, then New Britain Township. Within a decade he relocated his tavern “one block” closer to the crossroads in what was then Warwick ...
The Doyles built an inn in 1745 and the town was known early on as "William Doyl's Tavern" and "Doyle's Town." In 1752 a second tavern was built, which still stands today (although modified from its original state). In 1776 the inn was sold by William Doyle (born in 1712, son of Edward Doyle Junior), who moved to Plumstead, Bucks County, where ...
