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Amana Colonies Convention and Visitors Bureau; Amana Church Society Archived 2017-07-30 at the Wayback Machine; Amana History; Amana Heritage Society; The Community of True Inspiration; Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area "Schools in the Amana Colonies," Iowa Pathways, n.d. [Adapted from original article in The Goldfinch 13, No. 4 (April ...
Included in the area are the Amana Colonies, Living History Farms, and Brucemore, a few of Iowa's best known tourist attractions. [3] Silos & Smokestacks also includes several state-designated scenic byways and the nationally designated Great River Road along the west bank of the Mississippi River .
A meetinghouse of the Community of True Inspiration in the Amana Colonies. The Community of True Inspiration, also known as the True Inspiration Congregations, [1] Inspirationalists, and the Amana Church Society) is a Radical Pietist group of Christians descending from settlers of German, Swiss, and Austrian descent who settled in West Seneca, New York, after purchasing land from the Seneca ...
Iowa: Step Back in Time at the Amana Colonies. Southwest of Cedar Rapids, the seven Amana Colonies were established by German settlers who had separated from the Lutheran church. Today, the ...
Amana Colonies: Iowa Community of True Inspiration: 1850s 1932 The Amana villages were built one hour apart when traveling by ox cart. Each village had a church, a farm, multi-family residences, workshops and communal kitchens. The communal system continued until 1932. Modern Times: New York Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews: 1851 1864
Indian Fish Trap State Preserve, also known as the Indian Fish Weir, is a historic site located near the Amana Colonies in rural Iowa County, Iowa. The fish weir is an array of rocks in a V-shaped formation in the Iowa River. It is the only structure of this kind in Iowa. [3]
Amana is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It is one of the Amana Colonies, seven villages built by German Pietists in the 19th century. As of the 2020 census, Amana had a population of 388, down from 442 in the 2010 census. [2]
South Amana is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in northern Iowa County, Iowa, United States, and is part of the "seven villages" of the Amana Colonies. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 165. It lies along U.S. Route 6, east of the city of Marengo, the county seat of Iowa County. [2]