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Lancaster affiliation had 141 church districts in 1991 and 286 in 2010. [4] In 2011 it was present in eight states in 37 settlements with 291 church districts. [5] It represents about 15 percent of the Old Order Amish population, that is about 45,000 out of about 300,000 in 2015.
The estimated Amish population in Pennsylvania is about 93,000, and the estimated Amish population in the Lancaster County area is about 44,000. The number of eligible Amish voters in Lancaster ...
“And even if 100% of Lancaster’s eligible voters were registered and had a 100% turn-out rate, that would only be about 18,000 [Amish.]” Amish women and girls attend a wedding in Smoketown ...
Amish of Lancaster County use the telephone primarily for outgoing calls, with the added restriction that the telephone not be inside the house, but rather in a phone "booth" or small out-building placed far enough from the house as to make its use inconvenient. These private phones may be shared by more than one family.
Affiliation Date estab-lished Origin States Settle-ments Church districts Lancaster: 1760: Pennsylvania: 8: 37: 291 Elkhart-LaGrange: 1841: Indiana: 3: 9: 177 Holmes Old Order
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The Lancaster County New Order Amish was different, however, they eventually did permit electricity, what led to the split into two New Order Amish groups, electric and non-electric. [8] The Holmes County New Orders allowed men to trim their beards as well as the hair above their ears. [ 9 ]
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