Founding year: Wikipedia. First post office: 1826.The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Doylestown’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Doylestown is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #593 of 993 in Ohio. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Doylestown’s overall grade.
Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Doylestown’s 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
NoteThe founding year comes from Wikipedia alone; no second source gives 1827.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±6.0 points).
Founding year: Wikipedia (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Doylestown’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Doylestown. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1901Massillon sheet · 1:62,500
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Doylestown.
Every building
Doylestown, building by building, 1885–1915
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
In 1813, Thomas Frederick from Lancaster, Pennsylvania became the first settler to establish a homestead in what is now Doylestown. William Doyle, for whom the town was named, arrived in 1827 and purchased 50 acres from Frederick and two other early settlers. Doyle moved his family onto the land with the intent to found a new village. Five friends of Doyle's from Pennsylvania were convinced to bring their families and join Doyle to help settle the new village.
authority for the statement that Rogue’s Hollow was named by a Doctor Crosby, who owned the ground and had it laid out. Daniel Slanker built the first mill, a grist mill of the early-day type, and to it was also attached a saw mill; it was west of Doylestown. Mike Greenoe had the first, Fred Galehouse the second and after them George Wellhouse and Michael Brouse had distilleries. The first graveyard was at Easton, and Imcindia lleckerton was the first person to be buried there. Jonathan Coleman of Canton, a married man, was drowned in Donor’s lake in 1830.
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History of Wayne county, Ohio, from the days of the pioneers and the first settlers to the present time1878 · page 67Read the page →
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waters of the Black river and the Killbuck, north of Bridgeport, near Lodi, in Medina county, is at an altitude of 382 feet above the lake level. The highest land in the county is in the vicinity of Doylestown, in Chippewa township, which is 450 feet above Lake Erie, and 1,042 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. North of Doylestown, however, at Wadsworth, in Medina county, five miles distant, the summit, where crossed by the Atlantic and Great Western railroad, is 600 feet above the lake, and in that neighborhood the
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history of wayne county, ohio, from the days of the pioneers and first settlers to the present time1878 · page 67Read the page →
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waters of the Black river and the Killbuck, north of Bridgeport, near Lodi, in Medina county, is at an altitude of 382 feet above the lake level. The highest land in the county is in the vicinity of Doylestown, in Chippewa township, which is 450 feet above Lake Erie, and 1,042 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. North of Doylestown, however, at Wadsworth, in Medina county, five miles distant, the summit, where crossed by the Atlantic and Great Western railroad, is 600 feet above the lake, and in that neighborhood the
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This church is located at Doylestown and was organized a mile to the south of the pre.sent town in 1827. Their first building was a log structure twenty-eight by forty feet, which served until 1849, when a church was erected
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Doylestown, 1826 to 1902
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds
Doylestown’s post office has been open since 1873. Another post office, Chippewa, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Chippewa
1826–1873
Doylestown
1873–today
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Gone or out of use
Highland Grove Farmlocale
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside Doylestown
Chestnut HillDoylestown LutheranDoylestown MethodistSaint Peters and Pauls
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Doylestown’s history
What year was Doylestown founded?
In 1827, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Doylestown’s post office opened in 1826, and the census of 1870 counted 551 people here.
How does Doylestown rank for history?
Doylestown is more historic than 55% of U.S. towns, #593 of 993 in Ohio. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Doylestown?
15% of Doylestown’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±6.0 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1973.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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