Local Know-How

Want the local perspective on Millcreek? These facts and figures will give you the inside scoop.

15: number of national and regional awards for Millcreek's groundbreaking approach to neighborhood design

Vinnie's will have pizza at your door in a jiffy

Some of your neighbors at Millcreek: robins, white tail deer, squirrels, foxes, chipmunks, ducks, rabbits, geese, owls, hawks, fish

3 minutes: time it takes to walk to MZ2 for lattés, ice cream or household essentials

2nd Sunday of March: Charter Day (no affiliation with Charter Homes and Neighborhoods) at Strasburg's Railroad Museum. Free admission all day.

Did you know? The Millcreek meetinghouse is an authentic replica of an original Pennsylvania farmhouse.

3/4 mile: the distance that Millcreek borders its namesake creek

Area schools:

  • Hans Herr Elementary: 2.5 miles
  • St. Leo the Great (private K-8): 11 miles
  • Lancaster Country Day School (preK-12): 7 miles
  • L.S. High School: 2.5 miles
  • Lancaster Catholic High School: 6 miles
  • Martin Meylin Middle School (grades 7/8): 4 miles
  • Lancaster Christian School (K-12): 2 miles
  • Lancaster Jewish Day School: 7 miles

A "family dinner" unlike any other: Good 'n' Plenty on Route 896

375: the combined age of the three sycamore trees that put the bend in Bank Barn Lane

Gourmet groceries and goodies: Strasburg Market Basket on N. Decatur

 

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