Doylestown is a village located atop the highest point in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.

The village was founded in 1827 when William Doyle laid out a 40-lot town site at the crossing of two Native American trails on a hilltop.

Franklin continued to own the land north of the platted village, and was unhappy with the development taking place which led to a feud with Doyle.

The board purchased a tract of land from Frederick at what is now the intersection of Portage and Gates streets with the intention of establishing a school.

A decade later the wood-frame school was replaced with a more permanent brick building which would be expanded vertically as the village grew through the 1850s.

In 1834, brickmaking became an early industry in the Doylestown area when Abrahamm Franks built a kiln a quarter-mile southwest of the village site.

Early settlers in this area took advantage of the local coal deposits for small-scale use, but in 1840 a commercial mine was established by David Galehouse.

Mines began to pop up throughout the hollow and the area became home to the first real industry in eastern Wayne County.

[5]: 8 As the mines attracted waves of new settlers and brought an influx of economic activity, secondary industries began to appear in Doylestown.

A modernization of the plant was undertaken in 1887 and the growth was spurred on by workers from the coal mines, which were beginning to slow in their production.

[5]: 28  The commercial viability of the coal mines began to wane around 1900,[5]: 14  and the mower industry took a major downturn in 1901 after a fire at the factory, but by that point Doylestown had become a fully established village.

The 1884 building was dynamited and a replacement was constructed, with features intended for safety in the wake of the 1908 Collinwood school fire in nearby Cleveland.

The company has produced various plastics from its establishment and continues to this day, as of 2023, though it is now known as Mid-West Poly Pak, Inc.[7] Construction and agriculture remained important industries in Doylestown throughout the 20th century as well.

Suburbanization emanating from nearby Akron and more distant Cleveland has given contemporary Doylestown an exurban feel, as it is now considered to be a bedroom community for larger cities in Northeast Ohio.

[11] A handful of small streams begin at springs on the slopes of the hill and flow from the higher elevations into larger creeks surrounding the village.

[11] Ohio State Route 585 skims the northern and eastern edges of the village as it heads southeast from Norton to Wooster.