Union Library of Hatboro local history collection 1799-1999

Lehman Church (Hatboro, Pa.).

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Horsham Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)

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Horsham Monthly Meeting was established in 1782 out of Abington Monthly Meeting by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. It was transferred to Abington Quarterly Meeting in 1786. Two meetings emerged at the time of the Separation of 1827. Horsham Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1827, and its members attached to Abington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The Hicksite monthly meeting is the forerunner of the current Horsham Monthly Meeting. From the description of Membership, 1883-1...

Union Library of Hatboro.

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In 1715, the Crooked Billet Inn was built by John Dawson in what is now known as Hatboro Township. It was a farming village that boasted one of the first rural libraries in Pennsylvania, the Union Library Company. The town put great emphasis on education and built the Loller Academy in 1811. Originally a private school, it became the public school for the village in 1848. As of 2011, the building still stands and is currently used as Borough Administrative Offices and Montgomery Cou...

Loller Academy (Hatboro, Pa.)

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"Robert Loller (1740-1808) was an educator, surveyor, and courageous patriot. He fought at Trenton, Princeton, and Germantown. He was elected to the Continental Congress and helped draft the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Constitution. He left instructions in his will for another illustrious neighbor and good friend, Nathaniel Boileau, to build the Loller Academy at a cost of $11,000. The school was opened after Loller's death, closed shortly after the Civil War, and again became a state...