How did Hagersville, Pennsylvania get it’s name? This page provides a brief history about the naming of Hagersville, Pennsylvania, the people who settled it, and the industry rising within it.
Village on the township line between East Rockhill and Bedminster on the old Bethlehem Road, now a spur of Route 656. The post office, established February 13, 1851, with Francis Gerhard as first postmaster, has recently been discontinued and mail is supplied by Perkasie rural delivery. Hagersville was named for Colonel George Hager, a prominent politician who was a candidate for Sheriff in 1836. The Hager family was influential in the public affairs of upper and central Bucks County. One of its most active members was Samuel Hager, founder of the borough of Perkasie. Back in the 1870s, Hagersville was a center of considerable business. It had a population of 150, a store, a hotel, blacksmith and wheelwright shops, and two coach factories, and mail was supplied by a tri-weekly stage line from Line Lexington. One of the landlords of the Hagersville hotel, about 1795, was Frederick Heaney, a son of Johannes Hornung (later changed to Heaney), a German immigrant who settled in Rockhill in 1742, where Frederick was born on August 18, 1769. Frederick was one of the leaders in the Fries Rebellion. After his arrest, conviction, and pardon, he moved to Northampton County, where soon thereafter he was honored by Governor Simon Snyder with an appointment as Justice of the Peace, an office he held until his death.