Doylestown
Doylestown Borough
| Doylestown Township incorporates Doylestown Borough and the surrounding area. Attractions include the Shrine of Czestowoha and a memorial to the Polish Winged Hussars. There are a number of great restaurants in Doylestown Township such as The Waterwheel Tavern. |
Doylestown Township
Doylestown Borough is the county seat of Bucks County Pennsylvania. It is known for it’s government offices, theater, dining, museums and shops.
The Mercer Museum was founded by Henry Chapman Mercer. It houses an outstanding collection of Early American artifacts. His home, Fonthill is another amazing attraction.
Doylestown is the County Seat with a new courthouse and administration building.
There are dozens of restaurants in the town. We recently visited the Hattery Stove and Still located in the old Doylestown Inn.
You can find eclectic stores such as Vintage Vibe which re-purposes vintage items into bluetooth speakers and lighting.
Doylestown is used as the Postal City for locations in the surrounding townships.
The Hattery Stove and Still
We decided to go out to eat at the last minute on a Saturday. I picked the Hattery Stove and Still pretty much at random. The entire decision took less than a minute … and it was a great choice.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Vintage Vibe
Vintage Vibes sells retro merchandise. Basically antique pieces wired as lamps and sound systems with vintage style bulbs.
Continue reading No tags for this post.Fonthill Castle in Doylestown
Fonthill Castle was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer. Fonthill is one of three concrete structures build by Mercer. The other two are the Mercer Museum and the Moravian Pottery Works. Mercer mixed and poured the concrete by hand with the help of a couple of men and a donkey.
Continue reading No tags for this post.The Waterwheel Tavern in Doylestown
We visited the Waterwheel Tavern in Doylestown for a late lunch. We were going to go to a chain restaurant but a last minute changed proved to be an excellent choice.
No tags for this post.The Mercer Museum in Doylestown
My GF and I took a trip to the Mercer Museum in April 2017. It’s a fantastic, interesting place to visit. Henry Mercer, a wealthy Doylestown eccentric built the museum to house what he saw as an endangered part of Americana. The solid concrete structure houses about five floors of artifacts.
Continue readingThe Husaria statue at Our Lady of Czestochowa and memorial to the Katyn Forest
There is a fantastic statue of a Winged Hussar (Husaria) in the cemetery at Our Lady of Czestochowa as well as a memorial to the Poles murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Forest.
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