Editing Mount Joy, Pennsylvania (section)

==Name and origin==
The name is often shortened to "Mt Joy", as in Mencken (1963).<ref name="Mencken63">Mencken (1963) p.653. Quote: {{blockquote|In the years since then many of these names have been changed to more elegant ones,<sup>2</sup> and others have vanished with the ghost towns they adorned, but not a few still hang on. 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. Joy, Intercourse and Paradise.}}</ref> However, citizens of the town often point out that this abbreviation is not proper because the town is not named for a mountain but is named after the "Good Ship" ''Mountjoy'' which famously broke a Catholic siege during the [[Siege of Derry]].<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Mount Joy|url=http://www.mountjoyhistory.com/about/history-of-mount-joy/|website=Mount Joy Historical Society|publisher=Mount Joy Historical Society|access-date=27 December 2016}}</ref> Due to the early settlement of the Protestant [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]] in this region of Pennsylvania, many of the municipalities in the area were given names common to the North of Ireland, such as [[Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Derry Township]], [[Londonderry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania|Londonderry Township]], [[South Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania|South Londonderry Township]], [[Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|Mount Joy Township]], [[East Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania|East Donegal Township]], [[West Donegal Township, Pennsylvania|West Donegal Township]], and [[Rapho Township, Pennsylvania|Rapho Township]].

Mount Joy is often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in [[Pennsylvania Dutch Country]], along with [[Intercourse, Pennsylvania|Intercourse]], [[Blue Ball, Pennsylvania|Blue Ball]], [[Lititz, Pennsylvania|Lititz]], [[Bareville]], [[Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania|Bird-in-Hand]] and [[Paradise, Pennsylvania|Paradise]].<ref name="Ward65">Ward's quarterly (1965) p.109 quote: {{blockquote|...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.}}</ref><ref name="Anderson79">Anderson (1979) p.214 quote: {{blockquote|"...but anyone who names their towns Mount Joy, Intercourse, and Blue Ball can't be all bad. Obviously they have more on their minds than just religion."}}</ref><ref name="Museums06">Museums Association (2006) p.61 quote: {{blockquote|Which brings us to Intercourse. You can imagine my delight when I found out that the Amish call the town of Intercourse, Pennsylvania, their home. There seems to be a lot of explanations from locals trying to pass off the name as a bastardisation of 'Enter Course' and so on, but seeing as there are other local towns called Blue Ball, Bird In Hand, and Mount Joy, I suspect that the person responsible had a very juvenile sense of humour. The town sits in upstate Pennsylvania and is a tourist trap for anyone even remotely curious about the Amish way of life.}}</ref><ref>Rand  McNally and Company (1978) p.52</ref><ref name="Mencken63" />