Hosensack, Pennsylvania is a village in Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County. The Hosensack Creek flows southwest through the village into the Perkiomen Creek

Perkiomen Creek

Perkiomen Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill River in Berks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.Perkiomen Creek begins in Hereford Township, Berks County, initially flows eastward into Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, and turns southward to reenter...

 in Palm

Palm, Pennsylvania

Palm is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies along Pennsylvania Route 29 between Hereford and East Greenville at latitude 40.4281539 longitude -75.5329608. It is located in Upper Hanover Township and the Zip Code is 18070...

. Zionsville

Zionsville, Pennsylvania

Zionsville is a village mostly in Upper Milford Township, Lehigh County, and also in Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its zip code is 18092. The West Branch Hosensack Creek forms its natural SE boundary and drains it via the Hosensack Creek to the Perkiomen Creek...

 is two miles to the north and Hosensack residents use its zip code of 18092 except for a very small number on Mill Hill who use the East Greenville zip code of 18041. http://hipcodes.com/18092/ It is in the Pennsburg telephone exchange and uses area code 215.

History

During the mid-1730s the Kings Highway was surveyed and settlement began in the Hosensack Valley. A group of German travelers compelled to spend a night in the valley remarked "es war so dunkel wie in einem hosensack" (it was as dark as in a pants pocket.) The original name of the village was Buckhorn and it was founded in 1759. http://www.lehighvalleyhistory.com/lehigh/lowermilfordtownship.htmlhttp://lowermilford.net/history.htmhttp://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/lvgeology/_848.html