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Doylestown is a village sitting atop the highest point in Wayne County, Ohio, at roughly 1,250 feet above sea level, surrounded by Chippewa Township about 13 miles southwest of Akron.

Doylestown was founded in 1827 when William Doyle laid out a 40-lot town site at the crossing of two Native American trails on the hilltop; the survey was recorded on Christmas Day, 1827.

The first settler at Doylestown was Thomas Frederick, who established a homestead there in 1813 after arriving from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Doylestown's motto is "Village of Values, A Town of Tradition."

Coal made Doylestown's early economy - the valley southeast of the village, known as Rogues' Hollow, saw at least 102 mines operate between 1840 and 1940 and gained a rowdy reputation for saloons and lawlessness fed by mine workers.

Brickmaking began near Doylestown in 1834, and in the 1860s John Seiberling built a factory in the village for the Excelsior self-raking mower works, though a May 16, 1910 fire destroyed the mower works and hastened the village's industrial decline.

The Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Doylestown, built in 1877, is said to be the first church built in the Diocese of Cleveland.

Doylestown has lost its industrial and much of its agricultural character and is now a bedroom community for Akron and Cleveland, surrounded by Chippewa Township land zoned suburban residential.

Doylestown children attend Chippewa Local Schools - Hazel Harvey Elementary School, Chippewa Intermediate School, and Chippewa Jr./Sr. High School - and the village has a branch of the Wayne County Public Library.

Doylestown's 2020 census population was 3,051 - exactly the same number of residents counted in the 2010 census, for 0.0% growth over the decade.