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The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US-states though about 2/3 are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The largest Amish settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and adjacent counties followed by Holmes and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland.
The Amish community in Adams County belongs the Swiss Amish, which is an Amish affiliation whose ancestors came to Adam County in 1840 and who speak a Bernese dialect in everyday life. They had a total population of 8,595 people in 58 congregations in 2017, [ 10 ] or 24.2% of the county's population.
In 1969 a small group of Amish families investigated the idea of settling in southern Rush and northern Decatur counties. At the time land was available for $380-$400 per acre. By 1970 the Amish ...
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 ...
Daviess County / ˈ d eɪ v iː z / is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 33,381. [2] The county seat is Washington. [3] About 15% of the county's population is Amish of Swiss origin, as of 2017. [4]
Assembly Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana; Bruderhof Communities, international [3] Bon Homme Hutterite Colony, Tabor, South Dakota, NRHP-listed; Casselton Mennonite Church, Casselton, North Dakota, built as an Episcopal church, was a Mennonite church during 1950-2002, NRHP-listed; Charity Christian Fellowship; College Mennonite Church, Goshen ...
Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD 2010 ISBN 9780801893988; Steven Nolt and Thomas J. Meyers: Plain Diversity: Amish Cultures and Identities, Baltimore MD 2007. ISBN 9780801886058; Thomas J. Meyers and Steven M. Nolt: An Amish Patchwork: Indiana's Old Orders in the Modern ...
The largest Swiss Amish settlement is located in Adams County, Indiana, near Berne with a total Amish population of 8,595 people in 2017. [13] The Amish settlement in Daviess County, Indiana with a total Amish population of 4,855 people in 2017 was originally settled mostly by Swiss Amish but switched to Pennsylvania German language over time.