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  2. Lancaster Amish affiliation - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Amish furniture - Wikipedia

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    Henry Lapp was a furniture maker based in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and it is his designs that most closely resemble the furniture we think of today as Amish-made. He was one of the first to abandon the painted, Germanic-style influence in his furniture and opted for an undecorated, plain style, following more the styles of Welsh ...

  4. Somerset Amish Settlement - Wikipedia

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    The two groups differ not only in dialect (Midwestern vs. Pennsylvania forms of Pennsylvania German) but also in the selection of typical Amish family names. [2] Today, it is home to only seven church districts. The Somerset Amish hold Sunday service at meetinghouses, instead of practicing home worship, as almost all other Old Order Amish do. [3]

  5. Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church - Wikipedia

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    Kinzers, PA: Aaron Lapp, Jr, 2003. Irwin, Jerry and Douglas Lee. "The Plain People of Pennsylvania." National Geographic. April, 1984: 492-519. Pages 502, 511, 514, and 556 have pictures of Weavertown members. Page 507 has picture of a family from Pequea. Accompanying text summarizes Amish Mennonite belief and practice. Heller, Karen and Rob ...

  6. For Richer or Poorer - Wikipedia

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    The next day, they find themselves in Intercourse, Pennsylvania, a small Lancaster County-area community of Old Order Amish. Brad drops in on a conversation and after stealing clothes, they masquerade as Jacob and Emma, a family's expected cousins from Missouri. Samuel and Levinia Yoder, along with their sons and daughters, make the pair at home.

  7. Henry Lapp - Wikipedia

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    Henry L. Lapp (August 18, 1862 in Leacock, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – July 5, 1904 in Gordonville) was one of the best known carpenters-cabinetmakers of nineteenth century America. The third of seven children, Lapp was born deaf, [ 1 ] and it is believed that from an early age he painted pictures in order to communicate because he could ...

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  9. Amish country - Wikipedia

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    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