Hatfield Township is a cozy suburb located in the northern section of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Hatfield Township boasts an ever-growing business community, an impressive parks system, a gamut of year round community recreation programs, and a history dating back to the early 1700's.

Hatfield Township’s fertile lands first drew Native Americans from the Lenni Lenape tribe to the area near the Neshaminy Creek. Bethlehem Road (or the King’s Highway), the area’s first road, connected Philadelphia with the Lehigh Valley and opened our region to European settlement in the early 1700s.

The Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County confirmed Hatfield Township on March 9, 1730. Foklore suggests that the township was named for Welsh immigrant John Hatfield, but it is more likely named after a village in Hertfordshire, England.

By the end of the 1700s, more than 500 people lived in the area, mostly Mennonite, Quaker, and Welsh farmers. The last encampment of the Lenni Lenape had been abandoned in 1777 when the tribe moved west.

The township boomed in the mid-19th century with the construction of the