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Maine Amish – Maine continues to steadily attract Amish settlements, with eight of its present 11 communities founded since 2011. Together with Vermont, the state boasts the only Amish presence in New England.
The Bay Minette, Alabama Old Order Amish community began in 1906 when five men from Geauga County, Ohio, Stark County, Ohio and Lagrange County, Indiana, investigated clear-cut logging land in Baldwin County, Alabama's southernmost county bordering the Gulf of Mexico and the state of Florida.
There were 32 states of the United States with an Amish population in 2024 that consists of at least one Amish settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like e.g. the Beachy Amish. New Order Amish are seen as part of the Old Order Amish despite the name by most scholars. The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US ...
Below you’ll find a list of states in the South with an Amish population as of 2018. Numbers here are based on the latest report on the Young Center’s Amish Studies website. Giles County, VA. I’ve included 1) the number of settlements, and 2) total estimated population by each state.
By my count, as of 2020 I have visited 58 Amish communities in 15 states (I suspect I’ve left off 2 or 3 more, but let’s go with 58). That’s only around 10% of all Amish settlements (currently totaling over 600), which underscores how dispersed the Amish are.
Estimates were calculated using a variety of sources including Raber’s New American Almanac, reports by correspondents in Die Botschaft, The Budget, and The Diary, settlement directories, regional newsletters, and settlement informants, and were rounded at the settlement level.
ALABAMA: You have large Amish settlements in Tennessee and a pretty established one in Pontotoc, Mississippi in the northeast part of the state, I'd not think it'd be a stretch that an Amish community could start in the northwest part of the state.