Peddler's Village growth, year by year

From chicken coops to tourist mecca, here's how Peddler's Village grew.

1962: Earl Jamison opens Peddler's Village with 14 shops and the Cock 'n Bull Restaurant on six acres of land in Lahaska, Bucks County, that are known to locals as "Hentown."

1967: First village festival, May Day; it's now the Strawberry Festival.

1968: Peddler's Pub opens.

1973: First Apple Festival.

1978: First Scarecrow Competition and Festival.

1979: "Evening in the Colonial Kitchen" hearth-cooking experience debuts.

1980: First Gingerbread House Competition.

1983: Curtain rises on dinner theater.

1984: Hart's Tavern opens.

1984: Fine Arts and Contemporary Crafts Show starts.

1986: Earl Jamison purchases the Buttonwood Inn and begins renovations for the Golden Plough Inn.

1987: Golden Plough Inn opens with 10 rooms; by 2003, it will have 71 rooms.

1988: Peddler's Pub Murder Mystery Dinner Theater starts.

1993: Carousel Village Opens with the Grand Carousel.

1993: The village now includes 64 shops and six restaurants.

1998: Jamison restores and opens to public a 1922 Philadelphia Toboggan Company (P.T.C.) carousel.

2001: Kids' attraction Giggleberry Fair opens.

2002: Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce honors Jamison with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ambassador of Bucks.

2003: The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 2003 Suburban Greening Awards recognize Peddler's Village for outstanding public planting and improving quality of life through horticulture.

2003: Earl Jamison dies in June.

2005: Earl's Prime restaurant opens.

2009: Earl's Prime reopens as Earl's Bucks County.

2012: Peddler's Village celebrates 50 years.