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Website. www .doylestownborough .net. Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 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, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Allentown.
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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 ...
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The earliest inhabitants of the neighborhood were Scotch-Irish. In 1732 a log church was founded at Deep Run, eight miles north-west of Doylestown, of which Rev. Francis McHenry was installed pastor in 1738. Doylestown was incorporated as a borough in 1838.
Community. Government. The Mayor. Noni (Elnora) West, Mayor of Doylestown Borough. ewest@doylestownborough.net. 215.345-4140. Noni (Elnora) West was raised in Doylestown attending both Lenape and Central Bucks High School (before East or South).
Doylestown Township was founded in 1818 after the inhabitants of Doylestown and its vicinity petitioned the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the establishment of the Township of Doylestown. According to the US Census Bureau, there are 17,971 people residing in Doylestown Township.
The area now known as Doylestown (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) was given to Edward Doyle as a land grant from William Penn in 1692. 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.
Mayor The Mayor is elected at Large to a 4-year term, and serves as the "weak executive". Municipal Government in Doylestown dates to 1838 with the incorporation of the Borough of Doylestown, one of approximately 2,500 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
