Stars Hollow

A talking display built in the new Stars Hollow Museum explained that a Puritan family first discovered the area while looking for a place to settle.

During the American Revolutionary War, a "battle" was fought in Stars Hollow involving 12 men who stood and waited for a group of incoming Redcoats who never arrived.

A statue of Casimir Pulaski, Polish nobleman, soldier, and military commander who has been called, together with his counterpart Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, "the father of the American cavalry," sits across from the town square, next to Luke's Diner.

On 6 June 1944 when Allied forces landed in France, the sound of the bell was broadcast to all parts of the country.The center of town consists primarily of businesses surrounding a park with a gazebo.

In the Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life episode "Summer," the office of The Stars Hollow Gazette is shown to be located here as well.

In the Gilmore Girls series finale "Bon Voyage," Rory's farewell party is held in a rainstorm under a tent in the park.

The wedding of Lorelai and Luke takes place in the gazebo in "Fall," the fourth episode of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Third Street is the location of the Dragonfly Inn, which Lorelai and Sookie St. James purchase in season three after its previous owner, Fran Weston, dies in episode 20, "Say Goodnight, Gracie."

Stars Hollow was inspired by, and is loosely based on, several real communities in Connecticut: the villages of Washington and West Hartford, and the town of New Milford.

Lorelai Gilmore 's house in Stars Hollow