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The Shady Maple began as a farm stand run by the Martin family. The name came from its location in the shade of a large maple tree.The farm stand evolved under the next generation of family ownership into a small IGA, Inc. supermarket by 1970.
In 1929 Enos Miller opened a gas station and automobile repair shop on Lincoln Highway East in Ronks, Pennsylvania.Anna Miller, wife of Enos, sold home cooked food to customers and became renowned for her Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
A grey top buggy of the Lancaster Amish affiliation. The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [1] is the oldest Amish ...
“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 ...
The Red Caboose Motel (originally named the Red Caboose Lodge) is a 48-room train motel in the Amish country near Ronks, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, [2] where guests stay in railroad cabooses. [3] The motel consists of over three dozen cabooses and other railroad cars, such as dining cars that serve as a restaurant.
Lancaster County Anabaptist community founded in c. 1760, has the world's largest Amish settlement, with 37,000 people in 220 church districts in 2017, or about 7% of the county's population. [72] By 2021 the Amish population increased to almost 42,000.
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According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80% ...