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An aerial view of 125 East Main Street, the first house in Lititz The Welcome Center at Lititz Train Station Aerial View of Lititz, PA Lititz Spring Park. Lititz / ˈ l ɪ t ɪ t s / is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, 9 miles (14 km) north of Lancaster. [3] As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 9,370. [4]
The Chinatown grew from waves of Chinese immigrants who came east from California after the 1849 Gold Rush and the transcontinental railroads. The immigrants came from the area around Canton in China. According to the article, the Chinatown was primarily centered on Second Avenue with merchant names such as "Wing Hong Chinese Co., 519 Second ...
Notable buildings include the Warden's House (c. 1757), Corpse House (Leichen Kappelchen) [2] (1786), Werner House, Tinsley Cottage, Sisters' House (1758), Moravian Church (1787), Brothers' House (1759), Lititz National Bank, Commonwealth National Bank (1922), Mary Dixon Memorial Chapel (1884) on the campus of Linden Hall School, and the ...
Pennsylvania Route 772 is the community's Main Street; the highway leads west 3 miles (5 km) to Lititz and southeast 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to U.S. Route 222 in Brownstown. Lancaster , the county seat , is 10 miles (16 km) south-southwest of Rothsville, and Ephrata is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to the northeast.
The closed factory was redeveloped into 25 condos and a hotel. The Market at Wilbur, Blackworth Live Fire Grill, a restaurant opened August 2019, while the Wilbur Lititz, a Tapestry Collection hotel by Hilton, opened September 2019. [8]
In 1850, Julius Sturgis owned a bread business in Lititz. That year, he provided a homeless man with dinner. According to legend, the homeless man had been on a train that went behind the bread business, and got off the train after seeing the bakery to get food and a job; [5] however, Julius did not have a job available, but nonetheless fed the man.
Pennsylvania Route 772 (PA 772) is an east–west 38.5-mile-long (62.0 km) state highway located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.The western terminus of PA 772 is at PA 441 in Marietta, and its eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 30 (US 30) just west of Gap.
The farmstead was first surveyed in 1730 as a 200-acre tract [3] for Johannes Hess' grandfather, Hans Hess (ca. 1683-1733). This Hess patriarch immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1717 with his wife Magdalena (ca. 1688-1767) and their children from Germany or Switzerland.