![]() Pennsylvania Route 272 passes through the northwest side of Ephrata, leading northeast 8 miles (13 km) to Adamstown and southwest 13 miles (21 km) to Lancaster, the county seat. Route 322 passes through the center of the borough as Main Street it leads northwest 28 miles (45 km) to Hershey and southeast 35 miles (56 km) to West Chester. The Ephrata Commercial Historic District, Ephrata Cloister, Eby Shoe Corporation buildings, Connell Mansion, Mentzer Building, and Mountain Springs Hotel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ![]() At the period of its greatest prosperity the community contained nearly 300 persons. Many of the members were well-educated Peter Miller, second prior of the monastery, translated the Declaration of Independence into seven languages, at the request of Congress. ![]() The community, which contained both men and women, was founded by Johann Conrad Beissel in 1732. ![]() Emlen UrbanĮphrata is noteworthy for having been the former seat of the Mystic Order of the Solitary, a semimonastic order of Seventh-Day Dunkers. The Ephrata National Bank building, designed by C.
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