Rothsville - Lititz, PA - U.S.A. - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

About the Town
Welcome to Rothsville. This village was named for the Roth family. The earliest settlement can be traced to Phillip Roth who built a tavern there in 1790. As settlers began to take up residence in the area, the settlement took on the name "Haussa Barrick". This is the local idom for the German "Hasenberg". The tranlation is Rabbit Hill probably in response to the large number of wild rabbits in the area or those raised by the German farmers. A road named Rabbit Hill Road runs from Newport Road east of town to Church Road. The name of the town was changed to Rothsville sometime after 1847 when a post office was established. SOURCE According to Wikipedia, Today's Rothsville is a census-designated place (CDP), associated with the town of Lititz, PA, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. Lititz, PA, is the town for residents' mailing addresses. The cdp is located entirely within Warwick Township. The population was 3,044 at the 2010 census. SOURCE

About Philip Roth
This is an excerpt from the opening paragraph from the "Rothsville Bicentennial 1790-1990" history authored for the Bicentennial Committee by local Armin Sohns. "Warwick Township is one of the original townships laid out in 1729 at the formation of Lancaster County. The earliest settlers in the vacinity of what is now Rothsville were .... Philip Roth acquired 90 acres of land and built a tavern at the junction of the Newport and Lititz roads." It is this Philip Roth for whom Rothsville is named. The tavern is still standing and bears the name of "The White Swan".

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