CIVIL WAR TOUR • DOYLESTOWN VIP TOUR • WOMEN IN HISTORY TOUR • PUBLIC SERVANTS TOUR • TREE TOUR • HALLOWEEN TOUR
History is Alive at Doylestown Cemetery! The Historic Doylestown Cemetery Guided Walking Tours began in 2012 as a gift to Doylestown's celebration of 200 years of Doylestown becoming the County seat. Find out about historical figures, artists, writers, political leaders, scientists and industrialists that lived in Bucks County. Explore the 19th-century tombstones or walk through the arboretum and gardens with our arborist. If you would like to book a private walking tour or if you would like to hire a speaker for your group or organization contact Kat Landis at tours@doylestowncemetery.com or 215-348-3911. Proceeds from the tours and donations benefit restoration and preservation at Historic Doylestown Cemetery.
GUIDED WALKING TOURS
Guided Walking Tours are led by costumed guides on Saturdays at 10AM.
Guided walking tours last approximately 90 minute - 2 hour.
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Civil War Tour
Meet some of the men from Doylestown who served in the great conflict called the Civil War. Some lost their lives on the battlefield, others came home to live out the rest of their life in their hometown. Over 200 Civil War veterans are buried here including five Generals, members of the US Colored Troops, US Naval Sailors, and the Surgeon General of the Union Army. Civil War experts and re-enactors will take you on an oral journey from Doylestown to the scenes of some of the Wars’ most desperate battles.1st Saturdays | 10 AM May 1st through Oct. 31 -
VIP Tour
Doylestown has been the home of many interesting and important personalities. Captains of industry, discoverers, and inventors in science, adventurers, leaders in the world of art, literature, and culture, some of them known around the world. Meet some of the VIP's who reside within the gates of our underground museum, and learn of their fascinating accomplishments.4th Saturdays | 10 AM May 1st through Oct. 31 -
Public Servants Tour
After becoming the county seat in 1812, Doylestown became home to innumerable local, state and federal political officials, ambassadors, congressmen, judges, jurists, and legislators from all levels of political life and of both major parties.4th Sunday | 1 PM May 1st through Oct. 31 -
Women in History
Historic Doylestown Cemetery Summer Walking Tours presents a new tour called Women In History. Meet many brave, brilliant, talented and creative women. Examples include Gladys Nickleby Nelson, a Central Bucks School District nurse who opened the very first polio immunization clinic in the U.S. in 1955; Juliana Reiser Force, secretly carried tens of thousands of dollars provided by Gertrude Whitney, to France for the purchase of field ambulances during WW1. She was a co-founder and the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; Lucy Emerson Geil, a grand-niece of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a writer, scientist and amateur photographer who accompanied her husband, adventurer and public lecturer W. Edgar Geil, on his trips abroad to collect photos and information for his books and lectures. These are just a few examples of the women in history tour.3rd Saturday | 10 AM May 1st through Oct. 31