Doylestown, Pennsylvania | borough, county seat

 borough, draw only border, county seat

Although Doylestown's origins date to 1745 when William Doyle obtained a license to build a tavern on what is presently the Northwest corner of Main and State Streets, Doylestown Borough's role as a governmental center dates to 1813 when it replaced Newtown as the County Seat of Bucks, one of the original counties created by William Penn in 1682.

With the Courthouse came the various branches of County Administration and as an outgrowth, the development of "Lawyers Row", a collection of Federal Style Offices around the Courthouse that marks Doylestown as the legal center of Bucks County.

Municipal Government in Doylestown dates to 1838 with the incorporation of the Borough of Doylestown, one of approximately 2,500 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.The present type of Borough Government is the "Weak Mayor" form which governed all incorporated municipalities during the 19th century.

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