What's better than being handed a big, squishy wad of dough and being taught how to twist it into a pretzel? That's what happens at the start of the Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery tour. The tour explores the large space where Sturgis started the first pretzel bakery in the U.S. back in the late 1700   from go.com  

Housed in a 1784 building, part of the original Moravian settlement. By 1850 the building was being used as a bakery when the baker, Julius Sturgis, also began to bake pretzels. In 1861, bread baking ceased and it became the first commercial pretzel bakery in America, now listed on the national Reg   from foodhistorynews.com