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Hallowell Hotel

When the Doylestown-Willow Grove Turnpike was made a public highway north of Private Road in 1839, the village of Davis Grove lost its position as a strategic crossroads. At the same time, the settlement along the turnpike near Justinian K. Hallowell’s hotel became important. This area became known as the village of Hallowell.

Justinian Hallowell112 and his brother George bought a farm on March 15, 1880 that would become the Hallowell Hotel. They ran both until George’s death in 1897, when his sister Lydia became a partner. At some point they added a store and a post office name Hallowell.

Hallowell Hotel is now the site of the Horsham Inn.

The Village of Davis Grove later disappeared under the Willow Grove Naval Air Station.