Leacock-Leola-Bareville, Pennsylvania

Bareville is often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Mount Joy, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise.

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.0 square miles (16 km2), virtually all of it land.

Leola made headlines in the Spring of 2006 when six members of a single family were found murdered inside a house.

The killings took place over the Palm Sunday weekend, but the victims were not discovered until later in the week on Wednesday, April 12, 2006.

[8][9] ...in such delightfully-named towns in Pennsylvania Dutchland as his native Mount Joy, and neighboring Lititz, Blue Ball, Bareville, Intercourse, Bird in Hand, and Paradise.

"...but anyone who names their towns Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad.

Indeed, there are plenty of lovely specimens to match them in the East, in regions that were also frontier in their days, e.g., the famous cluster in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania: Bird in Hand, Bareville, Blue Ball, Mt.