Where did the Gilmore Girls reside?

Stars Hollow is a fictional town in Connecticut featured on the television show Gilmore Girls. It is depicted as a close-knit community with many quirky characteristics, located roughly thirty minutes from Hartford. The show's creators borrowed elements of Washington Depot, Connecticut; Kent, Connecticut; and New Milford, Connecticut to create the town, which is actually a set constructed on the Warner Bros. backlot in Burbank, California.

Stars Hollow was founded in 1779 with conflicting legends regarding how it got its name. Although some within the town doubt the theory, 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 1st season episode "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers".

Another story of Stars Hollow's founding was presented in Season 5, 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 town square is located on the Warner Bros. studio back lot. It is just around the corner from the exterior set for the hospital from ER.