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Bucks County is a county located Southeast in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 628,270. It is the fourth-most populous county in Pennsylvania. The county seat is Doylestown. The county is named after the English county of Buckinghamshire, abbreviated.
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.
August 3, 1682 - Formal beginning of the colonial government. William Penn sends his cousin, William Markham, to explore and govern the newly acquired territory. Markham is ordered to summon a council that includes existing inhabitants (mostly Swedish and Dutch with a few Finns and English).
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Doylestown, the county seat, was first called by this name in 1778. It is derived the name from William Doyles, who settled there about 1735, and kept a hostelry at the cross-roads as early as 1742. The earliest inhabitants of the neighborhood were Scotch-Irish.
In March 1745, William Doyle, an Irish settler, obtained a license to build a tavern, then known as William Doyle's Tavern, on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell's Ferry Road at present-day Main and State Streets.
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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.
Doylestown was also home to Henry Chapman Mercer, an architect, collector and ceramist, who built two sprawling castles in the county seat.
