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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.
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 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.
- 456 ft (139 m)
- Bucks
- 18901–18902
- Pennsylvania
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Mar 25, 2012 · Jeremiah Langhorne, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and a substantial landholder in Bucks County deeded approximately 300 acres from the present Hamilton Street one block west of the town’s main intersection extending easterly along Court Street to East Street to his two slaves Cudjo and Jo, who were to become free landholders after his death...
Feb 29, 2008 · From its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 : Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. History of Doylestown, old and new. From its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900. by. Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910.
Apr 12, 2011 · Hammerstein was among the noted figures, mostly from the literary and theatrical circles of New York City, who moved to Bucks County beginning in the 1920s.
Nov 12, 2004 · Article on day trip to Doylestown, Pa, home to about 1,000 old buildings preserved in historic district; legacy of Renaissance-style visionary Henry Chapman Mercer, founder of Moravian Pottery...