Gretna Green the marriage ceremony. The blacksmiths in Gretna became known as "anvil priests", culminating with Richard Rennison, who performed 5,147 ceremonies. The local blacksmith and his anvil became lasting symbols of Gretna Green weddings. Two in particular, The Old Blacksmith's Shop, built around 1712, and Gretna Hall Blacksmith's Shop (1710) became, in popular folklore at least, the focal tourist points for the marriage trade. The Old Blacksmith's Shop opened to the public as a visitor attraction as early as 1887. Victorian chronicler Robert Smith Surtees described Gretna Green at length in his 1848 "New Monthly Magazine" serial, "The Richest Commoner in
Mount Gretna Heights, Pennsylvania Mount Gretna Heights, Pennsylvania Mount Gretna Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States, near the borough of Mount Gretna. The population was 360 at the 2000 census. Mount Gretna Heights is located at (40.248671, -76.467090). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 360 people, 168 households, and 111 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 2,815.5 people per square mile (1,069.2/km²). There were 292 housing units at an average