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earupset aboutfountainBv W LESTER TRAUCHwNorman W Lear, 148 Davis Road. Doylestown. wrote me a fascinating letter which I'm sharing with my readersI hope the new Bucks County Commissioners when thev assume office9§the first of the new year will see fit toclean up the woods fronting on East and North Streets which is a part of Dr Henry Chapman Mercer's Fonthill estate in Doylestown Township.If I paid $25,000 an acre for fiveacres as the owners of Mercer Park andApartment1 and townhouses complex did and built some of the finesttownhouses and apartments you can find anvwhere, I would like a better view from the other side of the streetftLear, a former Doylestown Borough councilman, also is unhappy about the care and attention the World War I bronze memorial fountain at the Courthouse corner of Broad and NorthMam Streets has been getting ' lt;I saw that fountain from the drawing board to its present location and it flost around $4,000. The handsomefriuntain that stood in front of theformer brownstone courthouse on East^ourt Street at the main entrance was treated by William R Mercer Jr., ofIdle (The Mercer estate at Old Dublin ike and North Mam Street latertyecame Ave Maria Seminary and was Ityqueathed to the Cardinal and {'ttholie Archdiocese of Philadelphia jiv Martha Dana Mercer, wife* of fWilliam R Mercer Jr Lear writes It was no easv matter toWturn out a large concrete bowl and a fountain, also made of concrete, from'which poured streams of water into the ibowl The fountain was situated in a 'plot of ground between two sidewalks * $ h a t leci to the steps of the main en-J fra nee to the courthouse, r* Lear divulges some exciting information about the two brothers. William *R Mercer Jr . and Dr Henry ChapmaniMercer
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Dec 29, 1975
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