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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25S0_the-museum_Doylestown-PA.html
After a century of use, the antiquated prison was closed on June 18, 1985. That same year the warden's house was placed on the National Register of Historic Buildings and Sites. For many years the Bucks County Council on the Arts (predecessor to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RZ_the-expansion_Doylestown-PA.html
Three years later, a capital campaign was launched to raise the funds necessary to construct a professionally oriented facility with greatly expanded exhibition galleries and an art storage vault that would meet the highest museum standards. With …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RY_the-mercer-museum_Doylestown-PA.html
Castle, Fortress, or Museum
Surprisingly this building has always been a museum. Henry Mercer designed it specifically to house his collection. Although the design seems unusual, it met Mercer's goals perfectly. He believed that a fireproof, wate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RV_bucks-county-jail_Doylestown-PA.html
This prison cell is modeled on a cell from the old Bucks County Jail, the former occupant of this site. Designed by the noted Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton, the jail was built in 1884 and was based on Quaker ideas of reflection and peniten…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RS_corporate-business-partner-entrance-courtyard-and-w-b-u-x-sculpture-garden_Doylestown-PA.html
Honoring program founders Herman Silverman and Bettina A. Murdoch for their commitment and dedication to the Corporate Business Partner Program. And, in recognition of the outstanding support of the
Corporate Business Partners to
The James A. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RL_last-hanging_Doylestown-PA.html
Within these walls of the Bucks County Prison, just inside the Main Gate, lived the sheriffs of Bucks County who maintained order and supervised punishment including death. On July 19, 1914 James Linzi was the last of two men hanged here and in Bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RK_william-h-eastburn-iii-esquire-1932-2008_Doylestown-PA.html
Bill Eastburn, was a tall, imposing man - his good looks and magnetism made him almost larger than life. A graduate of Trinity College and Penn Law School, he became a top trial lawyer and the managing partner of the law firm of Eastburn & Gray (t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RJ_1748-fountain-house_Doylestown-PA.html
Designated a
National Historic Site
by the
United States
Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RI_the-lenape-crossroads_Doylestown-PA.html
Here stood an ancient crossroads, the meeting place of two major Lenape trade routes dating back before 1000 AD. The route extended from Shackamaxon (Philadelphia) to Lechauwekink (Easton) and connected the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers to the ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25RG_former-u-s-post-office_Dublin-PA.html
Historic Place
Heritage Conservancy