Lititz, Pennsylvania

Lititz is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the United States, about 9 miles (14 km) north of the city of Lancaster. It was founded in 1756 by members of the Moravian Church and takes its name from a German form of the name of Litice Castle in Bohemia. Lititz was one of the four leading Moravian communities in Pennsylvania, together with Bethlehem, Emmaus and Nazareth, and for about a century only Moravians were permitted to live there, with houses held on lease until the lease system was ended in 1855. During the American Revolutionary War the Brethren's House, built in 1759, served as a hospital for Continental Army troops. The borough is home to Linden Hall School for Girls, founded by the Moravians in 1746 and described as the oldest all-girls boarding school in the United States, and to Sensenich Propeller, an aircraft propeller maker founded in 1932. The U.S. Census Bureau gives the borough a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), and Lititz Run flows through the downtown toward the Conestoga River. The 2020 census counted 9,370 residents.