Dyerstown Historic District

Dyerstown is a clustered stone hamlet of about eight residences, a former grist mill and several barns along Old Easton Road in Plumstead Township, Bucks County. Most of its houses were built between 1800 and 1850 from local stone, two and a half stories high with even window spacing and consistent street setbacks. The village grew around a grist mill first recorded in the early eighteenth century, and the 1798 tax list records a mill and several small stone houses. John Dyer III built a house in 1837 and another in 1843, and members of the Dyer family owned nearly all of the village into the 1850s. Dyerstown was bypassed by a newer highway in the 1940s, so its narrow road, stone walls and hedgerows remain. Its nineteenth century development ceased by the late 1800s, which keeps the village largely as it looked then. The district is regarded as an unusually well-preserved example of a Pennsylvania rural village of this period.