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Example of Ohio Amish Wood Craft, Farmerstown Furniture Bed in bedroom at The Amish Village, Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Amish furniture is furniture manufactured by the Amish, primarily of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. It is generally known as being made completely out of wood, usually without particle board or laminate.
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
The Martinsville Novelty Corporation Factory is a historic factory complex located at Martinsville, Virginia.The main factory was built in 1929, and is a long, three-story, brick building that was constructed for the purpose of manufacturing small pieces of furniture called "novelty" pieces in the furniture trade.
The Ashley HomeStore chain of furniture stores is composed of corporate owned stores and independently owned stores with licenses to sell Ashley Furniture products exclusively, including mattresses and accessories. There are over 1000 Ashley Furniture HomeStore retail furniture stores operating worldwide in more than 123 countries.
The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
Berne is widely known for its Swiss heritage, architecture and culture, and for its status as the "Furniture Capital of Indiana." [ 4 ] Berne and the surrounding area have also become known for their large Amish population (the fifth largest Amish community in the USA), [ 5 ] who speak Bernese German (a Swiss German dialect), as opposed to ...
Middlefield is a village in Geauga County, Ohio, United States.The population was 2,748 at the 2020 census.It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.Middlefield is known for being the center of the world's fourth largest Amish settlement, [4] and its significant manufacturing base, which includes Gold Key Processing, Inc., Duncan Toys and KraftMaid.
Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. [2] It is adjacent to the community of Charlotte Hall, which is known for its agriculture, Amish population, and the Maryland Veterans Home.