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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.
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Mail coach lines through Doylestown were established in 1823, and a daily coach to New York began in 1829, with stops in New Hope and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rail Services Arrive. Doylestown’s development by 1850 is shown in this detail from a map of Bucks County. The county seat’s original courthouse and jail are depicted in the lower ...
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 1856. Doylestown's historic downtown began to deteriorate in the early 1960s, but the town was revitalized in part due to an architectural preservation movement.
Although Doylestown's origins date to 1745 when William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is presently the Northwest corner of Main and State Streets, Doylestown Borough's role as a governmental center dates to 1813 when it replaced Newtown as the County Seat of Bucks, one of the original counties created by William Penn in 1682. With the Courthouse came the various branches ...
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).
Map of Doylestown borough, Bucks County Pa. : from special surveys and other data, under the ... Borough cadastral map showing all buildings, lot lines/numbers, land subdivison names, and landowners' names. Hand colored to indicate extent of subdivisions. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1874 by...
