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"Preserving and celebrating the creative and historic significance of Doylestown and its neighboring communities". Collecting and preserving artifacts of our past is a major activity of the Society.
The Video History Series Committee has pulled, from our library of over 100 interviews with Doylestonians, this short film which provides a glimpse of the citizens, anecdotes and historic events that make. Doylestown the unique place it is today. After the screening, Doylestown Historical Society Board Chairman, Ron Strouse and Video History ...
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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 ...
Website. www .doylestownborough .net. 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.
Doylestown is a village located atop the highest point in Wayne County, Ohio, United States. It is surrounded by Chippewa Township and located 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Akron . The village was founded in 1827 when William Doyle laid out a 40-lot town site at the crossing of two Native American trails on a hilltop.
In 1682, William Penn, a Quaker, was granted the land of Bucks County from the King of England as payment for a debt. Doylestown was built on the tract that William Penn conveyed to the Free Society of Traders in 1682, originally containing 20,000 acres. Of the 20,000 acres, 8,612 of them lay in the nearby townships of Warwick, New Britain and ...
The history of Doylestown can be told by comparing old maps to todays map. Via an interactive map, explore then and now. Click Here People of Doylestown. The history of Doylestown can be told by the storys of the people that have had an impact on our community. Click Here Stories of Doylestown. The history of Doylestown can be told by some of ...
