Stars Hollow is a fictional town in Connecticut featured on the television show Gilmore Girls and the Netflix miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. It is the town in which the protagonists Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory Gilmore reside. Stars Hollow is a close-knit community located roughly thirty minutes from Hartford. The original town square set was located on the Warner Bros. studio back lot, just around the corner from the exterior set for the hospital from ER. History of Stars Hollow Founding The town of Stars Hollow was founded in 1779 with conflicting legends regarding how it got its name. The traditionally accepted legend involves two star-crossed lovers who seemed destined never to be together, until separate cosmological phenomena involving stars led them to each other at the spot where the town now exists. This is celebrated annually at the Firelight Festival, shown in season one, episode 16, "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers" and season four, episode 13, "Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels." Some within the town doubt the theory, such as when Luke Danes remarks it's just as likely the town is named after a hypothetical sex worker named Star. Another story of Stars Hollow's founding was presented in the season five, episode 18, "To Die and Let Diorama." 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. They named it as such because of "the stars, so bright; this forest, so hollow!" The Revolutionary War During the American Revolutionary War, a "battle" fought in Stars Hollow when 12 men stood and waited for the Redcoats who never came. This battle is re-enacted annually in the town square, as seen in season one, episode eight, "Love and War and Snow" and in season five, episode 11, "Women of Questionable Morals." This second occurrence marked the beginning of the addition of the town prostitute, who slept with the British general to delay the troops. 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 the town square's gazebo is the town's Liberty Bell sign, which reads: Town Square The center of town consists primarily of