Carl LaVO | Special to the Bucks County Courier Times
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How these history buffs found a cave believed to be a Doan Gang hideout
Hear how these Doylestown history buffs found a cave they believe was a Doan Gang hideout and how they will turn their journey into a documentary.
Nur B. Adam, Bucks County Courier Times
There’s this side chair in an upstairs bedroom in William Penn’s reconstructed estate in Falls. It’s about as close as you’re likely get to Pennsylvania’s founder at old Pennsbury Manor. He owned the chair. I like to imagine him tuckered out, plopping down on the seat next to a window at the end of a long and weary day managing his 13-square-mile estate and meeting with Lenape Indian chiefs he befriended and from whom he bought the land 341 years ago.
Downstairs in the Great Hall, you get another taste of the real deal. Freshly cooked game and vegetables once were heaped on a large pewter charger engraved with the initials of William and first wife Gulielma. Dinner guests would pass around the platter at the hall’s elongated dinner table. Thieves in 1996 obviously knew the charger’s historic value. They broke in one night and made off with it and 50 other…