In 1752, at the intersection of today’s Old York Road (Rt. 263) and Durham Road (Rt. 413), Henry Jamison opened a tavern known as “Jamison’s,” a stop on the stagecoach …
In 1938, the Trapp Family Singers emigrated from Austria to the United States and began making concert tours of the country. Martha Mercer, widow of William Mercer Jr. …
The house at 86 N. Clinton St. in Doylestown was built in the early 1870s for Samuel and Rebecca Histand. Made of brick, it was two stories in the Colonial revival …
Only three days after war broke out between the states in April 1861, the Doylestown Guards, under the command of Captain William W.H. Davis, answered President Lincoln’s …
In the late 1990s, 37 N. Main St. in Doylestown was purchased by Mike Zoto who ran the eatery called B. Maxwell’s (today’s M.O.M.’s). The following is …
At 16 N. Franklin St. (between West State and Wood streets) in Doylestown, a wagon spoke factory burned to the ground in 1901. It is unclear when the property was …
In the last week of May 1904, The Intelligencer announced, “Nothing unusual is scheduled to appear in the Memorial Day celebration in Doylestown. Year after …