Bronze tablet on the house of the D. Paul Hershey farm on Newport Road in Warwick Township. Count Nicholas Zinzendorf, founder of the modern Moravian Church, preached here in December of 1742. He also named the nearby Moravian town Lititz after the barony of Lititz in Bohemia in 1752. Tablet erected in 1936.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
Road sign with graffiti and geodesic dome house in background, near intersection of Briar Hill Road and Rothsville Road. Photo taken for the Pennsylvania School of the Arts History of the Future Project.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Description
Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Detail of Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Detail of Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Description
Detail of Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Description
Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Description
Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Photograph- Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.
Description
Compass Mill at the intersection of Pierson Road and Rothsville Road (Route 772) just outside of Lititz. Built by the Moravian Congregation c. 1755.