Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania

Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania Bird-in-Hand is positioned in Pennsylvania Bird-in-Hand - Bird-in-Hand Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, with parts lying in East Lampeter and Upper Leacock Townships.

The legend of the naming of Bird-in-Hand concerns the time when the Old Philadelphia Pike was surveyed between Lancaster and Philadelphia.

The sign in front of the inn is known to have once "portrayed a man with a bird in his hand and a bush nearby, in which two birds were perched," and was known as the Bird-in-Hand Inn.

Bird-in-Hand, featuring tanneries, feed mills, coal and lumber yards, was the most meaningful stop on the Lancaster to Coatesville section. In 1836 the village postal service was established as the Enterprise Post Office, as the village was then officially called, until the name officially changed to Bird-in-Hand in 1873. The play was set in the village of Bird-in-Hand and is often credited as a catalyst for the boom in Pennsylvania Dutch Country tourism in the mid-twentieth century.

The Plain & Fancy Restaurant opened in 1960, and is the earliest "family-style restaurant" in the area. Bird-in-Hand is often titled in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Mount Joy and Paradise. In 1968 the Smucker family opened a small 30-room motel called the Bird-in-Hand Motor Inn, with an adjoining coffee shop, in hopes of capitalizing on the burgeoning tourist trade in the area.

In 1976 the Bird-in-Hand Farmers Market opened adjoining to the Bird-in-Hand Motor Inn. The Bird-in-Hand Village Inn and Suites was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The town is home to the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, the first bank in the United States to open following the passage of the Dodd Frank Act. Americana Museum of Bird-in-Hand Bird-in-Hand United Methodist Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania a b c d e f g h i Bird-in-Hand History at amishnews.com ...in such delightfully-named suburbs in Pennsylvania Dutchland as his native Mount Joy, and neighboring Lititz, Blue Ball, Bareville, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Paradise.

"...but anyone who names their suburbs Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad.

You can imagine my delight when I found out that the Amish call the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, their home.

There see severalms to be a lot of explanations from locals trying to pass off the name as a bastardisation of 'Enter Course' and so on, but seeing as there are other small-town suburbs called , Bird In Hand, and Mount Joy, I suspect that the person responsible had a very juvenile sense of humour.

The town sits in upstate Pennsylvania and is a tourist trap for anyone even remotely curious about the Amish way of life.

Indeed, there are plenty of lovely specimens to match them in the East, in regions that were also frontier in their days, e.g., the famous cluster in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania: Bird in Hand, Bareville, Blue Ball, Mt.

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