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The complex consists of Moser family dwelling and a compact grouping of a granary and two English barns. The frame dwelling was built in 1845 and consists of a 2-story, three-bay block and four-bay, 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story ell. It was used for Mennonite worship services in the 19th century. The granary dates to the mid- to late 19th century, and the ...
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The 1740s log farmhouse, with the summer kitchen, log garage, tool shed, and stone spring house. The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [1] who purchased the land from William Penn's sons in 1735.
Old Order Mennonites (Pennsylvania German: Fuhremennischte) form a branch of the Mennonite tradition. Old Order are those Mennonite groups of Swiss German and south German heritage who practice a lifestyle without some elements of modern technology, still drive a horse and buggy rather than cars, wear very conservative and modest dress, and have retained the old forms of worship, baptism and ...
The Mennonite Tourist Church at 3340 Bahia Vista Avenue has been a landmark from the time it was purchased by Mennonites in 1946 for $7,500, equivalent to $117,000 in 2023. [7] Prior to the purchase, the Kruppa bakery occupied the land. The church had attendance at the first Sunday services of 531 people.
The Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum in eastern Holmes County, in Berlin, Ohio. [34] It opened in 1981 as the Mennonite Information Center. By 1989 it had moved to the current structure which was finished to include the Behalt Cyclorama as well as a bookstore. The center was renamed in 2002 to reflect its mission as a cultural center.
Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America. A barn was a necessary structure for any farmer, for example for storage of cereals and hay and keeping of animals. Yet a barn was also a large and costly structure, the assembly of which required more labor than a typical family could provide.
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