About Doylestown, PA

Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in Pennsylvania, United States. It 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, and 66 miles (106 km) southwest of New York City. It constitutes part of the Delaware Valley (i.e. the Philadelphia metro area). As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 8,300. == History == Like most of the region, the area of Doylestown was inhabited by the Lenape people until the arrival of the Europeans. Doylestown’s origins date to March 1745 when William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is now the northwest corner of Dyers Road and Coryell’s Ferry Road (now Main and State Streets). Known for years as “William Doyle’s Tavern,” its strategic location, at the intersection of the road (now U.S. Route 202) linking Swede’s Ford (Norristown) and Coryell’s Ferry (New Hope) and the road (now PA Route 611) linking Philadelphia and Easton, allowed the hamlet to grow into a village. The first church was erected in 1815, followed by a succession of congregations throughout the 19th century.A second inn, the Sign of the Ship was established in 1774, built diagonally across from the Doyle Tavern. Samuel Flack was innkeeper in 1778.As the population of Central and Upper Bucks County grew throughout the 18th and into the 19th century, discontent developed with the county seat’s location in Newtown, where it had been since 1725.