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There are Amish settlements in four Canadian provinces, Ontario, founded in the 1820s, Manitoba, founded in 2018, [24] New Brunswick in 2015 and Prince Edward Island, in 2016. There was an Amish settlement in Honduras from about 1968 to 1978 but the settlement failed. [25] In 2015 new settlements of New Order Amish were founded in Argentina and ...
The Amish settlement near Arthur was founded in 1864 and by 2013 had 30 church districts [8] with about 150 people per district. [ 9 ] The Arthur community was the eighth largest Amish settlement in the world, with 4,410 as of 2017.
In May 2007 a group of 60 Amish men, women and children moved from Wisconsin to Saline County, Illinois where they purchased almost 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of land to farm near Harco. [1] At the junction of Harco Road and Brown Road they erected a school house that was destroyed by a derecho in 2009. [2] In 2013 the Amish there had one church ...
The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760, is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence. Even though the Lancaster affiliation is quite liberal concerning the use of technology, compared to other Amish affiliations, it is an affiliation that practices strenge Meidung (strict shunning ). [ 17 ]
The Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt. Across the country, Amish populations are on ...
At about the same time a new settlement was founded near Perth-Andover in New Brunswick, only about 12 km (7.5 mi) from Amish settlements in Maine. In 2017, an Amish settlement was founded in Manitoba near Stuartburn. [110] In 2024 this colony ceased to exist, as the Amish have sold their properties and moved to Minnesota. [1]
Nauvoo (/ ˈ n ɔː v uː / NAW-voo; from the Hebrew: נָאווּ, Modern: Navu, Tiberian: Nâwû, 'they are beautiful') is a small city in Hancock County, Illinois, United States, on the Mississippi River near Fort Madison, Iowa.
Amish country may refer to: Ohio Amish Country, in Holmes County, Ohio, the highest concentration of Amish in the world; see Amish in Ohio; Pennsylvania Dutch Country, the largest population of Amish in the United States; Illinois Amish Country, along Illinois Route 133; Northern Indiana Amish Country, in Elkhart and LaGrange Counties