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Counties of Pennsylvania Dutchland

Proper noun

Pennsylvania Dutchland

1. Pennsylvania Dutch country; an area of southeastern Pennsylvania that historically had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch inhabitants. The region centers around the cities of Allentown, Hershey, Lancaster, Reading, and York.
   • 1960, Alfred Lewis Shoemaker, Eastertide in Pennsylvania: A Folk-cultural Study, ISBN 081170548X, page 41:

     Up until recent decades Easter Monday was celebrated as a holiday in rural Pennsylvania Dutchland.

   • 1965, Earl Francis Robacker, Touch of the Dutchland, page 63:

     Perhaps pie cupboards were made and used in places beyond the Pennsylvania Dutchland.

   • 2004, Irwin Richman, The Pennsylvania Dutch Country, ISBN 0738524581, page 11:

     Staying in Pennsylvania Dutchland, you can visit HersheyPark and cavort with Hershey candy characters, or visit Lancaster's Dutch Wonderland, now also operated by Hershey Estates, which is replete with many pseudo German references.