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Peach Bottom Slate quarries in 1969, about a year before the Funkhouser Quarry closed permanently. Peach Bottom is an unincorporated village in Fulton Township, Lancaster County, in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. It lies on the east bank of the Susquehanna River. [2] [3]
Peach Bottom Township is a township in York County, Pennsylvania, 60 miles (97 km) south of Harrisburg. The population was 4,961 at the 2020 census. [2] Peach Bottom Township was so named on account of peach trees growing near a river bottom. [4] Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station was built in 1958.
In 1900 the Peache y Amish—i.e., the Renno Amish—had 3 districts with 250 members, in 1956 they had 3 districts with 205 members. [3] As of 2000, the Renno Amish had about a dozen church districts primarily in Pennsylvania. [4] Around 2011 they had 19 congregations in four settlements in two states. [5]
The 2010 TV movie Amish Grace was a dramatization of the 2006 murders of Amish school children in Nickel Mines. [139] Amish Mafia was a reality TV show on the Discovery Channel about a group of Amish men in Lancaster County who protect and keep the peace after the 2006 Nickel Mines murders. The series ran from 2012-2015.
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The play was set in the village of Bird-in-Hand and is often credited as a catalyst for the boom in Pennsylvania Dutch Country tourism in the mid-twentieth century. The Plain & Fancy Restaurant opened in 1960 and is the oldest "family-style restaurant" in the area. [ 4 ]
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Churchtown is in eastern Lancaster County, in the center of Caernarvon Township. Pennsylvania Route 23 is the community's Main Street, leading east 4 miles (6 km) to Morgantown and west 20 miles (32 km) to Lancaster, the county seat.