Dresher (previously Dreshertown) is a community in Upper Dublin Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

The family left Silesia, a province in the German kingdom of Prussia, in 1726 to escape religious persecution as Schwenkfelders.

They first landed in England, and in 1734, left Plymouth, England, and arrived in Philadelphia with their children, Christopher and Anna, on the St. Andrews, one of three ships carrying Schwenkfelders,[1] Bean's 1884 History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania describes Dreshertown as follows: "Dreshertown is situated at the intersection of the Limekiln turnpike with the Susquehanna Street road, and equidistant from Fitzwatertown and Jarrettown.

Francis Houpt ran a general store beginning in 1871 at the village center: the triangle formed by Peg Street, Susquehanna Road and Limekiln Pike.

In the 1880s, the McCormick Brothers were wheelwrights and blacksmiths at a shop at this intersection[2] that was owned first by Michael Carolan (1844-1906), an Irish immigrant born near Kells, County Meath, who came, at age three, with his family to New York aboard the Patrick Henry.

The Pennsylvania Railroad built a line through Dreshertown in 1888 and a station stood where Susquehanna Road and Limekiln Pike cross.