April 10, 2026

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How Well Do You Know Lancaster County's Small Towns?

We’ll give you a surprising fact about one of Lancaster’s County boroughs, and you guess which town it belongs to.

This town is home to a 96-acre production campus where Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and U2 rehearse their stadium tours.
In 1953, a young woman from this town was crowned Miss America. She was given the key to the borough and made honorary mayor.
This town nearly became the capital of the United States. In 1790, a Senate vote on the question deadlocked 9-9 before Vice President John Adams cast the tiebreaking vote against it.
Robert Fulton, the inventor and painter best known for developing the first commercially successful steamboat, was born just south of this small borough in 1765.
This town is home to a 1,400-acre Masonic Village campus, originally founded in 1910 because the location was centrally situated in Pennsylvania and close to a train station.
This town has hosted the oldest continuously celebrated Fourth of July observance in the entire country, dating back to 1818.
The final scenes of the 1978 thriller The Boys from Brazil, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, were filmed on a farm near this town.
A chocolate company was founded in this town in 1913 and eventually became part of Mars, Inc. Today, the factory produces Dove Chocolate, 3 Musketeers, and Milky Way bars.
A religious commune in this town operated the second German-language printing press in the American colonies and used it to produce the largest book printed in Colonial America: the 1,500-page Martyrs Mirror.
In 1863, residents of this town intentionally burned their own covered bridge, at the time the longest in the world, to prevent Confederate troops from crossing the Susquehanna River into Lancaster County.

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