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History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . the Academy Lane for manyyears, and a few of the rude fore-fathers still call it by this was subsequently extended from Main street southwest, crossingWest State street at what is now Clinton. Broad street was next opened,1811, from East State street to North Main, then continuing into thecountry and known as Dutch Lane.^ There were no additionalstreets opened until after the village had became the county seat, 1813. In the first movement for incorporating Doylestown into a 1 Th
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . the Academy Lane for manyyears, and a few of the rude fore-fathers still call it by this was subsequently extended from Main street southwest, crossingWest State street at what is now Clinton. Broad street was next opened,1811, from East State street to North Main, then continuing into thecountry and known as Dutch Lane.^ There were no additionalstreets opened until after the village had became the county seat, 1813. In the first movement for incorporating Doylestown into a 1 The Buckingham line is still called the Swamp Road, and, in the longago, was the highway from Quakertown and the northwest section of thecounty to Newtown, the seat of Justice. 2 Broad street was called Dutch , because it runs out to the Dutch, or Mennonite meeting house after crossing Main street, and somepeople still call it by this name. Just what time York street was openedwe are not informed, as we have never seen the official papers, but webelieve about 1830. 194 Kf?!^ylKJl^«f^^fmM^!T^•f!^. /: /f/r///// u/ //.•?fiH
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