Perkasie Park was chartered in 1882 by the Perkasie Park Association, a group of Perkasie businessmen and Evangelical ministers. Its original purpose was to serve as a grove for Sunday school picnics and church camp meetings. Perkasie Park has been annually occupied since its founding in 1882. The first camp meeting was held in July 1882; by then, the Association had built a preaching stand, boarding stand, and refreshment stand. Early camp meeting attendees who wanted to attend all the meetings stayed in tents on the grounds. In 1886, the Association decided to construct cottages to provide more pleasant lodgings for the growing crowds of worshippers; at its peak in the late 1800s the Park attracted crowds of 20,000 or more. Noted local architect Milton Bean designed the new park layout, and between 1887 and 1900, 65 cottages were built. In June 1900, a devastating fire destroyed 21 cottages. By the next year's camp meeting, these cottages were rebuilt on a grander scale than before, with kitchens and bathrooms. Another fire in 1921 destroyed 3 cottages that were never rebuilt. The grounds today look very much as they did in 1901. In 2016 Perkasie Park was added to the US National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places.