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Gordonville Book Store

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Address: 275 Old Leacock Rd, Gordonville, PA 17529

Latitude/Longitude: 40.014999, -76.128907

Phone: (717) 768-3512

Pricing: $

Description:

The Gordonville Book Store is located in a nondescript, brown and beige cinder block building, along a winding back road in southern Lancaster County.  The store is open Monday – Thursday from 7 am – 5 pm, Friday from 7 am – 8 pm and Saturday from 7 am – 4 pm.  Closed Sundays.

The Gordonville Book Store is an AMISH shop and the owners frown on tourists taking photos inside, but you can definitely go in, walk around, shop, and enjoy all the items they have for sale while you take in the atmosphere of a truly Amish business.  This shop is not even slightly set up to cater to/benefit from local tourism.  The lamps are all powered by propane, and while the aisles bare a slight resemblance at times to a “Staples/Office Depot”…its just much smaller, less “fancy” and without quite as much selection/variety.

In addition to selling a variety of books, school/office supplies, children’s games and toys and crafting supplies, this book store is where the local Amish families buy all the text books and reading materials their children need for school.  So if you’re wondering what they teach in the small one-room school houses that do the county’s back roads, all you have to do is flip through a few of the primers and you’ll see!

So if you’re looking for a way to see how the Amish live their every-day lives, without going to a ‘museum’ or ‘attraction’ to see it, stop in at the Gordonville Book Store and you’ll be able to see the “real deal”.


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