Bird-in-Hand, PA

Bird-in-Hand is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States, in East Lampeter Township. The 2010 census counted 402 residents. The play was set in the village of Bird-in-Hand and is often credited as a catalyst for the boom in Pennsylvania Dutch Country tourism in the mid-twentieth century. Bird-in-Hand is in central Lancaster County, on the eastern edge of East Lampeter Township. Tourism is very important and many businesses cater specifically to tourists. Many of these businesses have an Amish theme, such as horse and buggy rides and crafts.

Amish Country Homestead. Lampeter Friends Meetinghouse. The short version is that Bird-in-Hand carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Bird-in-Hand: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Pennsylvania Route 340 runs through the center of town, leading west 6 miles to Lancaster, the county seat, and east 4 miles to Intercourse. Bird-in-Hand is home to Bank of Bird-in-Hand.