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The food side of the business became so successful that the Millers expanded it into the repair shop's space. The business was sold to employees Beatrice and Thomas Strauss in 1948 by the Millers. In 1957 the restaurant would receive its current name "Miller’s Smorgasbord." [1]
A cafeteria with seating for was added to the supermarket in 1982. This was later expanded into a Smorgasbord (buffet) with 300 seats. Subsequesnt expansions saw it moved to its own building and seating expanded to 1,200. [2]
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 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.
Amish potato salad; Apple butter; Apple dumpling—cored and peeled apple, covered in a pie-crust, dusted with sugar or cinnamon, and baked. Served in a bowl with milk. Sometimes eaten as dessert, but generally a meal in and of itself. Beef or venison jerky; Bova Shankel—a pierogi-type dish of potato dumplings and sauce.
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Witmer's Tavern, is an historic structure that is located in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, just east of U.S. 30 on Old Philadelphia Pike. This building known as Witmer's Tavern should not be confused with the other Witmer's Tavern more commonly known as the Conestoga Restaurant or Conestoga Inn that is located on Route 462 at Bridgeport just east of Lancaster City.
Donnermeyer, Joseph F. "A Demographic Profile of the Greater Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Amish." The Journal of Plain Anabaptist Communities 3.2 (2023): 1-34. online; Ellis, Franklin, and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Closson Press, 1883) online