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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.
Doylestown was incorporated as a borough in 1838. A flourishing boarding school for boys and girls has been established here by a joint stock company, and also a prosperous female seminary. Newspaper authority tells us that Doylestown, in 1778, contained but two or three log dwellings.
A bill to erect Doylestown into a borough was introduced into Legislature in February 1830, but failed, as well as a second attempt in the session of 1832. "An Act to erect the Village of Doylestown, in the County of Bucks, into a Borough" was passed and signed into law by Governor Joseph Ritner on April 16, 1838. [3]
Once a small village surrounded by farms, Doylestown developed into a bustling borough with a thriving downtown, a university, two museums, and commuter rail that carried passengers to Philadelphia in an hour. Prior to European colonization, the Lenni Lenape Indians lived on the land that later became Doylestown.
Dec 18, 2013 · In 1813 Doylestown became Bucks County’s government seat. Area solicitors began to build homes and offices across the street from the courthouse. This created a compact group of Federal style...
- Frank Dolski
1995: Award for Excellence in Local Government by the Commonwealth of PA. Recognized as a Pennsylvania Birdtown by the Audubon Society. The Borough of Doylestown is located in the heart of beautiful Bucks County Pennsylvania and serves as its County Seat.
In 1838, the growing village center of the Township detached itself from the whole and was incorporated as Doylestown Borough. Since that time, there has been little change in the basic form of township government, except that today, five supervisors are elected in place of what were only originally three “road supervisors”.
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