History of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA

Doylestown, a pleasant post-borough, capital of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 100 miles E. from Harrisburg. A turnpike connects this place with Philadelphia. It is pleasantly situated on an eminence, in the midst of a beautiful, fertile, and well-cultivated country. The county buildings are substantial edifices of sandstone. It contains r.n academy, a seminary for young ladies, 8 churches, 6 or 6 newspaper offices, a public library, and a bank. Pop. in 1850 1006. A railroad has been projected, which will connect Doylestown with Norristown and New Hope.

DOYLESTOWN, a town, capital of Buck's co., in the state of Pennsylvania, U.S., 100 m. E of Harrisburg. Its surface is undulating and its soil gravelly loam. Pop. 2,127.

Doylestown, a post-borough, capital of Bucks co., Pa., is situated on an eminence, 33 miles by rail N. of Philadelphia, and about 18 miles N.E. of Norristown. It has a stone court-house, a national bank, a trust company, a public library, an academy, a female seminary, and 8 churches. Four weekly and 2 daily newspapers (1 of which is German) are published here. Doylestown has gas-works, an electric-light company, manufactures of farming-implements and cabinet-ware, a tannery, 2 carriage-factories, a foundry, a creamery, and numerous other business concerns. Pop. in 1880, 2070; in 1890, 2519.

Three Large Buildings Burned in Blaze of Unknown Origin – Flames Menaced Whole Town

Special to the Times.
DOYLESTOWN, Dec. 24. – Fire destroyed a block of valuable property here this morning when buildings on Ashland Street, between Clinton and Main Streets, burned to the ground. How the blaze started has not been determined.

Two men were injured. E. A. WESTON, a member of the Willow Grove Fire Department, which responded to a general alarm, sustained serious lacerations when thrown from his truck, and CLARENCE BARRETT, son of one of the losers, sprained his leg while carrying out goods from the burning store.

The buildings destroyed were: Dolton Agriculture Works, valued at $75,000; JAMES BARRETT’S hardware store, and the livery stables of JOSEPH H. RHOADS. The total loss is estimated at $100,000 or more. Twelve suburban fire companies fought the flames and it was thought for a time that the whole town would be swept.

Doylestown, a banking and residential post-borough, capital of Bucks co., Pa., is situated on an eminence, 28 miles N. of Philadelphia, on the Philadelphia and Reading R. It has a court-house, public library, National Farm School, creameries, and manufactures of farming-implements, wagons, woollen goods, brick and tile, etc. Pop. in 1900, 3034.

Provide Supply of Graded and Inspected Eggs to Customers.

Eleven months operation of the egg auction conducted at Doylestown by the Bucks county co-operative producers' association will be summarized by farm market analysts of the Greater Pennsylvania council, for the benefit of egg-producing groups throughout the state, who may wish to plan similar enterprises.

William R. Whitacre and John F. Ross, the council analysts, have just completed a study of the Doylestown project, started nearly a year ago by the Bucks county group with the co-operation of the state bureau of markets and the department of agricultural economics of the Pennsylvania state college.

Eggs, inspected, graded and packed according to strict state standards, are auctioned twice a week at Doylestown, expenses of the auction being borne by a small charge to the producers. Average sales, when eggs are plentiful, are about 500 cases a week, Whitacre said. An original membership of 30 has grown to about...