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Lititz Moravian Historic District
The Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. History and architectural features This district includes 113 contributing buildings, one contributing site, and two contributing structures that are located in Lititz. It has notable examples of the Federal and Late Victorian architectural styles. The buildings date from roughly 1755 to 1930. Notable buildings include the Warden's House (c. 1757), Corpse House (''Leichen Kappelchen'')History of the Lititz Moravian Congregation, 1749-1999. Privately published by subscription of the congregation. (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 General Sutter Inn (originally the ''Zum Anker'', ...
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Lititz, Pennsylvania
Lititz is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, north of the city of Lancaster. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 9,370. History Lititz was founded by members of the Moravian Church in 1756 and was named after a castle in Bohemia near the village of Kunvald where the ancient Bohemian Brethren's Church had been founded in 1457. The roots of the Moravian Brethren's Church date back to the ancient Bohemian Brethren's Church. It was one of the four leading Moravian communities in the Northeastern United States (Bethlehem, Emmaus and Nazareth, each in Pennsylvania, were the three others). For a century, only Moravians were permitted to live in Lititz. Until the middle of the 19th century, only members of the congregation could own houses; others were required to lease. The lease system was abolished in 1855, just five years before the beginning of the Civil War. More information can be found in the book ''A Brief History of Lititz Pennsylvania ...
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Congregational Store
Congregational Store, also known as Wolle's Store, is a historic commercial building located at Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The original building was built in 1762, and is a two-story, five bay wide limestone building. Between about 1854 and 1859, a three-story, three bay extension was added to the east. At this time, the original building was stuccoed and an entry portico with Tuscan order columns was added. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the Lititz Moravian Historic District The Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. History and architectural features This distric .... References {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Commercial build ...
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Historic Districts In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
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Federal Architecture In Pennsylvania
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Historic Districts On The National Register Of Historic Places In Pennsylvania
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the ...
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William Werner House
William Werner House is a historic home located at Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1762, and is a -story, four bay frame dwelling on a stone foundation. It has a steep gable roof and is in the Georgian style. It measure 30 feet wide by 36 feet deep. A rear addition and two front dormers were added in 1849. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the Lititz Moravian Historic District The Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. History and architectural features This distric .... References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Georgian architecture in Pennsylvania Houses completed in 1762 Houses in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Lititz, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Lancas ...
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Johann Agust Sutter House
Johann Agust Sutter House is a historic home located at Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1871, and is a -story, brick dwelling with a gable roof in a Late Victorian style. It measures 30 feet wide by 42 feet deep. In the 1930s, it was modified for commercial use. This included a rear brick addition and a concrete block addition on that. It was restored in the 1980s. It was the home of California pioneer Johann August Sutter (1803 – 1880). He moved to Lititz in 1871, and built this home. ''Note:'' This includes It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Lititz Moravian Historic District The Lititz Moravian Historic District is a national historic district that is located in Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. History and architectural features This dist .... References Lititz, Pennsylvania Houses on the National Register ...
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Sturgis Pretzel House
The Sturgis Pretzel House of Lititz, Pennsylvania, founded in 1861, is the oldest commercial pretzel bakery in the United States. The Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery remains active in pretzel production and is a tourist attraction. History 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; however, Julius did not have a job available, but nonetheless fed the man. The man in return gave Julius a pretzel recipe. He had never baked pretzels before, so he tested the recipe out on his family and added pretzels to his bakery. By 1861 the recipe had proven to be so popular that Julius stopped his bakery to make pretzels; he started the first commercial pretzel business in the United States. To this day the Sturgis family still bakes pretzels using the same recipe Juli ...
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Morning Star (carol)
"Morning Star" is an American Moravian Church carol with text originating from a poem by Johannes Scheffler Angelus Silesius (9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name ''Angelus'' (Lati ... in 1657 and music composed by Francis F. Hagen in 1836.Nancy Smith Thomas Moravian Christmas in the South - Page 54 - 2007 "The memorable hymn "Morning Star," with music composed by Salem native Francis Hagen, is believed to have been performed for the first time on Christmas Eve 1836 in Salem. No one who has ever attended a Christmas lovefeast ..." References 1836 songs {{Christian-song-stub ...
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Historic District (United States)
Historic districts in the United States are designated historic districts recognizing a group of buildings, Property, properties, or sites by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided into two categories, Contributing property, contributing and non-contributing. Districts vary greatly in size: some have hundreds of structures, while others have just a few. The U.S. federal government designates historic districts through the United States Department of the Interior, United States Department of Interior under the auspices of the National Park Service. Federally designated historic districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but listing usually imposes no restrictions on what property owners may do with a designated property. U.S. state, State-level historic districts may follow similar criteria (no restrictions) or may req ...
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Francis Florentine Hagen
Francis Florentine Hagen (1815–1907) was a Moravian minister and composer. He is best known for his hymn "Morning Star" (1836) that is typically sung on Christmas Eve. Hagen was born in Salem, North Carolina, on October 30, 1815, the son of Johann Joachim Hagen and Susanna Lick.Francis Florentine Hagen Papers, Moravian Church Archives, Bethlehem, PA. He grew up in Salem before attending the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1835. He was ordained a deacon in the Moravian Church in 1844. Hagen served various congregations in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Iowa and New York before retiring from the ministry in 1877. As a composer, his musical style reflected his Moravian roots combined with elements of 19th century Romantic music.Nola Reed Knouse, ''The Music of the Moravian Church in America'' (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2008), 274. He composed large-scale orchestral and vocal works in addition to solo voice and piano pie ...
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy; the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush had severe effects on Native Californians and accelerated the Native American population's decline from disease, starvation and the California genocide. The effects of the Gold Rush were substantial. Whole indigenous societies were attacked and pushed off their lands by the gold-seekers, called "forty-niners" (referring to 1849, the peak year for Gold Rush immigration). Outside of California, the first to arrive were from Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and Latin America in late 1848. Of th ...
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