Lititz Historical Foundation

After spending time in Egypt, I’ve always said that purgatory would be living as a donkey in Egypt as my punishment and now I have the flip side of the coin, if I am to be rewarded, I would be living as a fat duck in Lititz Spring Park…
Liitz has Amish and Mennonite neighbors, but it was the Moravian’s who settled in Lititz in the mid 1700’s. Today you are entering God’s country where everything is gentle and pristine, passing acres of well maintained farmland, hearing the sounds of horses hooves clattering on the tiny streets until you reach the bosom of mother nature.
The town folks are so friendly, everyone takes the time to smile and say hello and it is a dog friendly town which many visitors take advantage of. Outside of the visitors center you will find the largest Rolex clock I have ever seen (and I have been to Rolex in Switzerland), the clock was donated on the 250^th anniversary of Lititz.
Benches are everywhere and made out of recycled milk cartons. They have the oldest commercial pretzel factory in America, Wilber’s Chocolate factory, woman are outside of their homes watering their flower boxes and sweeping the sidewalks. It’s quaint, I love it and I wish there were more towns like it.
The small town is speckled with gourmet shops where you can buy exotic foods, many antique stores and ice cream parlors, but they are all nestled inside of very old and well maintained buildings, which are basically set up like row homes.
The Lititz Museum and Johannes Mueller House are a big part of the Lititz Foundation holding relics from the first inhabitants of the town of Lititz. My husband and brother in law chose to pass on visiting these two «homes» which had rooms filled with antiques, the most gorgeous inlaid grandfather’s clocks and were set up to show how they lived when they settled here. Old finds prove this land was once inhabited by the native Indians. There is a small charge to tour the Mueller house and it is free to tour the museum, although they do have a donation jug along with free literature on the history of this town.
The Sutter Room, dedicated to General John Sutter, founder of Sacramento, California, a resident of Lititz from 1871 to 1880, is furnished with items from his home. Other rooms throughout the museum offer items seen nowhere else in the world. The town of Lititz has the oldest all girls college-​preparatory school, Linden Hall, was founded in 1746 and is still recognized as one of the nations top boarding schools.
Stroll through Lititz Spring Park, walking along the canal that runs through the center of it, marveling at the beautiful lush gardens and don’t forget to feed the fat ducks, you never know whom it may be.
I can not express in words my love for Lititz, pristine, quaint, friendly and like stepping back in time. It’s the home town everyone wishes was theirs.