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🌱 Why Douglassville’s Yellow House Hotel made Pennsylvania’s quirky-town-name list

Douglassville, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 4 min read

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  • Why Douglassville’s Yellow House Hotel made Pennsylvania’s quirky-town-name list

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• Pennsylvania's quirky towns: Unraveling the histories behind oddball names (keystonenewsroom.com) — Douglassville gets a fun shout-out in a statewide look at Pennsylvania’s quirkiest town names, thanks to the historic Yellow House Hotel that still operates as a restaurant and five-room inn. The article tours other oddly named communities across the state, offering light history and trivia you can share with friends.
   

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