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While the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, and adjacent counties split into several different affiliations in the last 100 years, the Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation remained united, but with a considerable internal diversity. The Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation had 177 church districts in 2011.
The Elkhart-LaGrange Amish affiliation is the second largest Old Order Amish affiliation. Its origin and main settlement lies in Elkhart and LaGrange counties in Indiana . It is quite liberal compared to other Amish affiliations concerning the use of technology. [ 16 ]
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%."
Concerning farm and home technology, there are quite some differences between different Amish affiliation, as the table below indicates. The three affiliations: "Lancaster", "Holmes Old Order", and "Elkhart-LaGrange" are not only the three largest affiliations, they also represent the mainstream among the Old Order Amish.
Renno Amish, a quite conservative group, emerged in 1863; Holmes Old Order Amish, second largest Amish affiliation; Elkhart-LaGrange Amish, third largest Amish affiliation; Lancaster Amish, largest Amish affiliation, relatively liberal; Michigan Amish Churches, emerged in the 1970s, in many aspects similar to the New Order Amish
The Amish alone did not give Trump Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes. With 99% of the votes counted as of Monday evening, the Republican nominee led Vice President Kamala Harris by just over ...
Nappanee's Amish originate from the early Amish immigrants from southwest Germany, notably the Palatinate, to Pennsylvania in the middle of the 18th century. [ 19 ] Amish families who became Old Order Amish in the second half of the 19th century first arrived in southwest Elkhart County in the early 1840s, and various other religious ...
Locally, the release says, the Bracero program was instrumental in leading to the growth of the Latino population in Elkhart County and across the greater South Bend region. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 ...