SUN., JUNE 8 - IVYLAND PANCAKE BREAKFAST

Ivyland Fire Company invites you to come out to breakfast visit them for breakfast. All you can eat pancakes & sausage make for a fundraiser you can really sink your teeth into! Breakfast is at 8am to 1pm, rain or shine. $7 Adults, $6 EMS (with ID), $5 Children 5-11. The firehouse is at 62 Wilson Ave., Ivyland, PA 18974

The Historical Society of Montgomery County

The Historical Society of Montgomery County in honoring the veterans buried at the Historic Montgomery Cemetery. Over 400 veterans are buried at the Cemetery, including five Civil War generals. They will be honored through wreath laying, speeches, military re-enactors and more. Visitors are invited to meet at the gatehouse at 11:00 a.m. to begin the day's observance. Activities are held outdoors and include walking to gravesites. Some areas of the cemetery may be uneven.

HATBORO FARMER'S MARKET

FRI., MAY 2

Starting May 2nd and every Friday thereafter until October 24th, the Farmer's Market features locally grown produce and other handmade and homegrown items in a family friendly market place in the center of Hatboro. Fresh breads, locally roasted coffee, handmade soaps and lotions, nut butters, local wines, alpaca yarn and products, and lots of fresh vegetables and fruit will be available for sale. Live entertainment and children's face painting! Vendors begin set up at 5pm with a 6pm market start time, running til dusk each Friday. Sponsored by the Hatboro Residents Association.

Hatboro Baptist Church

32 N. York Rd., Hatboro, PA 19040

Time: 6pm til dusk - rain or shine

Information: hatbororesidents@gmail.com

Welcome to Hatboro-Horsham Area

History of Hatboro and Horsham

     Horsham Township is a home rule municipality in Central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The township, incorporated in 1717, is one of the oldest original municipalities in Montgomery County. It has been governed by a Home Rule Charter since 1975 and is therefore not subject to the Pennsylvania Township Code. Population was 26,147 at the 2010 Census.
    Horsham Township is made up of several community areas including Horsham (19044), and portions of the Hatboro (19040), Ambler (19002), Chalfont (18914),And North Wales (19454).
     Named after the town of Horsham in Sussex in the South of England, it is one of several townships in Montgomery County whose name and size were determined by master survey lines drawn by William Penn’s engineers as they first plotted this part of the colony for sale and settlement.
    In 1864, the entire township of 17 square miles was made available to individual purchasers. Samuel Carpenter, from the town of Horsham, in Sussex England after which the township was named, purchased 9,200 acres within the present boundaries of the township.
    In 1709, Carpenter, then Treasurer of Pennsylvania, began to sell tracts of land to migrating Quakers. In 1717, Horsham Township was established as a municipal entity by a vote of the people.
    In 1715, John Dawson, a hatter from England, came to Hatboro, and built a house that later became the Crooked Billet Inn. The small village was at that time called the Billet. The Billet became known as Hatborough in 1740.
   In the 1750’s Hatboro was a farming village of about fifteen houses on the Old York Road. York Road, a former Indian trail, was the stage coach route between Philadelphia and New York. A mill, tavern, tannery, saddlery and a furniture maker were the main businesses. Most business was carried on by the barter of goods and services. There was no church and only a small school.
   In the summer of 1777 George Washington and his officers stopped for dinner at the Crooked Billet Tavern. He bought his grain from the old grist mill that is now the Old Mill Inn. It is said that hats were made in Hatboro for the Revolutionary War Soldiers.