TAKE OFF YOUR HAT WHEN YOU COME HERE - Down the Glenwood Road there is a community known as “Hatoff.” The citizens of the community petitioned the Post Office department for the name for their new post office. The group requested the name of “Hatton,” possibly in honor of the country’s first Assistant Postmaster General. A sarcastic post office bureaucrat responded that the requested name was already taken by another office in the state. He alternatively suggested “Hatoff.” The name stuck, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Gazette, Bucks Co., PA, July 19, 1883.
Hatoff was established on June 6, 1883. Service was discontinued on July 30, 1904 when the mail was ordered sent to Dublin.
Hatoff's postmasters:
Eugene Thornburg, June 6, 1883
Jasper McCray, Oct. 11, 1892
Jerry M. Lowery, Dec. 15, 1897
John J. Barton, May 2, 1900
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