The Friends' School - later named Haverford school, and then Haverford College - opened in October 1833 with 21 students.

The Alumni Association held its first annual public meeting on July 28, 1857.

Haverford’s library houses a cricket collection (athletic, not entomological).

The campus is an arboretum and there are approximately 3.25 trees to every student.

Haverford was founded in 1833 by a group of New York and Philadelphia Quakers..

Haverford has a need blind admission policy for U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

The campus crosses two counties - Montgomery and Delaware - and one of the faculty houses is actually on the county line.

In the summer of 1968, Haverford College played host to Serendipity Day Camp for the first time.

The arboretum is home to 17 state champion trees, the largest known measured trees of their kind in Pennsylvania.

The student-faculty ratio is 8:1, and 96% of classes have enrollments of 40 students or fewer.

Haverford has the only varsity cricket team in the U.S., led for over 25 years by coach Kamran Khan.

The College's first female students arrived as transfer students in September 1977. Haverford did not go fully co-ed for another three years.

50% of Haverford's faculty live on campus.

In January of 1897 the freshman class initiated Haverford's first honor system, after petitioning President Isaac Sharpless.

The C.C. Morris Cricket Library boasts the largest collection of cricket literature and memorabilia in the western hemisphere..

The Penn Treaty elm, planted in 1915, is a descendant of the American Elm under which William Penn signed his treaty with the Native Americans.

Haverford's name is derived from the Welsh word for "goat crossing".

Robert Ludlum's book Trevayne features a character who attended Haverford.

In the first intercollegiate soccer match in America, Haverford defeated Harvard.

As of the 2007-08 academic year, there are 1169 students from 46 states and 44 countries.

English gardener William Carvill laid out the grounds of the campus.