The Quaker Hill Historic District encompasses the center a mainly residential village in northeastern Waterford, Connecticut.

Waterford's Quaker Hill area was part of early land divisions when New London was settled by English Colonists in the mid-17th century.

Much of the land in the area was acquired by James Rogers, whose family eventually split from the local Congregationalist church to form a sect (called "Rogerenes" after their leader) that borrowed from both Baptist and Quaker theology.

The Rogerenes refused to accept colonial authority or pay ministerial taxes, and the village they formed developed without the traditional central meeting house.

In the 19th century, the village flourished as a local center of the papermaking industry, and it developed as a streetcar suburb when a trolley line was run along Old Norwich Road from New London.