| Intercourse, Pennsylvania |
Article Index for Intercourse |
Limousines in Intercourse |
Website Links For Intercourse |
Information AboutIntercourse, Pennsylvania |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT INTERCOURSE, PENNSYLVANIA | |
| lancaster county, pennsylvania | |
| unincorporated communities in pennsylvania | |
| settlements established in 1754 | |
|
Intercourse, Pennsylvania (pop. roughly 1,000) is an Unincorporated village in Leacock Township , Lancaster County in the U.S. State of Pennsylvania . The village is located within the 17534 ZIP Code , 717 Area Code , and 768 local phone code. As with the nearby towns of Blue Ball and Paradise, Pennsylvania , Intercourse is a popular site for Tourists on account of its name, which in modern times has acquired sexual connotations. Sign posts for the town are Frequently Targeted By Thieves . Besides its name, Intercourse is also famous for its Amish communities. For this reason the movie '' Witness '' was filmed in Intercourse and '' For Richer Or Poorer '' was set there, though not filmed in Intercourse. and Mennonite communities are found in the area]] ECONOMY Tourism and farmland are major industries in the town. Small businesses sell Amish crafts, food, and give Horse And Buggy rides. The town thrives on thousands of Tourist s that visit the region each year. Most of the land surrounding the town is farmland. HISTORY Intercourse was founded in 1754. The community was originally named Cross Keys, after a local tavern. Intercourse became the name in 1814, and there are various theories to explain this; one possibility is that the name derived from a race course, the "Entercourse", at the intersection of the town's two major roads. Another is that at the time, the word "intercourse" had commercial connotations relating to business transactions, and that the area was named "Intercourse" in hopes that it would become a center of commerce. " Sexual Intercourse " was a secondary, legalistic meaning of the term, roughly analogous to the sexual meaning of "congress" as in "sexual congress". As the more general use of the term fell out of popular usage, the narrower meaning became the term's primary connotation. SITES OF INTEREST
EXTERNAL LINKS
|
|
|