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Lititz was founded in 1756 as a Moravian church settlement and named after Litice Castle in Bohemia, which had sheltered persecuted Moravians in the 15th century.

For roughly its first century Lititz was a closed religious community — only Moravians were allowed to live there — and non-Moravians were not permitted to settle in town until the mid-1850s.

The 2020 census counted 9,381 people in Lititz, and Census QuickFacts counts about 3,968 households in the 2.3-square-mile borough.

Lititz is home to Linden Hall, founded by the Moravians in 1746 and the oldest continuously operating all-girls boarding school in the United States.

The Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery, founded in Lititz in 1861, is the oldest commercial pretzel bakery in America and still twists pretzels today.

Lititz smells of chocolate because of the Wilbur Chocolate Company: the Wilbur Bud, the company's famous kiss-shaped chocolate, was introduced in 1894, and the company itself was founded in 1865 — decades before Hershey — making its Lititz candy store and museum a pilgrimage site for chocolate lovers.

In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington ordered 250 wounded and sick soldiers quartered in Lititz, and the Moravian Brethren's House, built in 1759, served as a military hospital.

Lititz was once voted the 'Coolest Small Town in America,' a nod to its preserved 18th-century Moravian streetscape around Lititz Springs Park.

The Lititz Springs Inn has been in continuous operation since 1764, when it opened as the community's first tavern, the Zum Anker.

Moravian craftsmen made Lititz a colonial center of fine workmanship: organ builder David Tannenberg lived and worked in the Pilgerhaus from 1765 until his death in 1804, and John Antes built some of America's earliest stringed instruments there.