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1 day ago · The first courthouse was completed in 1812. The second courthouse standing on the left, located on the same site, was erected in 1878. The third courthouse on the right, a seven-story administration building (with a five-story circular judicial wing), was completed in 1960. Join our readers whose generous donations are making it possible for ...
1 day ago · On June 4, an ad in the Sunday News read "When D-Day arrives, keep tuned to WGAL 1490 KC for 24-hour service on all invasion news." Lancaster at that time was a bustling place, historian Jack W.W ...
23 hours ago · 2009: Center for Jewish History and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum present a program entitled “A Discussion of Refugees and Rescue: American Diplomat James G. McDonald and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1935-1945” The remarkable efforts of James Grover McDonald to call attention to the threat faced by European Jewry and his tireless ...
1 day ago · New Hope. Historic downtown street in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Image credit EQRoy via Shutterstock.com. New Hope is as much a tourist town as a historic one. Two and a half centuries ago, General George Washington passed through New Hope and stayed overnight with his battalion of men in preparation for the Battle of Trenton.
4 days ago · “Artifacts were everywhere, from portrait paintings leaning against a wall in the elegant Postmaster’s Suite to a child’s hand-drawn holiday card left taped inside a shuttered service window.
3 days ago · Several neighbors who challenged the proposed development of a “boutique hotel” and event space on West Court Street in Doylestown Borough recently appealed the zoning board’s partial approval of the controversial project.
5 days ago · The official site of the Borough of Doylestown, a neo-traditional community located at the heart of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 10 Doyle Street Doylestown, PA 18901 | Borough Hall: (215) 345-4140 | Police: (215) 345-4143
