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The original town was established in 1853 when E. W. Tenney opened a store. A post office opened soon after and was named "Hazelton", because the community was in a hazelnut grove.
This detail of Galbraith's 1897 Rail Service Map of Iowa shows Buchanan County towns of the time. It is a pictorial map rather than a technical map: Shady Grove, for example, is shown next to a man lying under a tree; Masonville is shown next to a Masonic symbol. Some of the towns' locations are slightly altered to make room for the illustrations.
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%."
The Buchanan Amish affiliation is a subgroup of Amish that was formed in 1914 in Buchanan County, Iowa. It is among the most conservative in the entire Amish world. [ 1 ] It is the fourth largest of all Amish affiliations, having almost as many church districts as the Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation.
Hazleton Township covers an area of 36.36 square miles (94.2 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Hazleton. The unincorporated community of Bryantsburg is also located in the township. According to the USGS, it contains five cemeteries: Floral Hills Memorial Gardens, Fontana, Hazleton, Kint and Saint Marys.
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 ...
Bryantsburg is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. [1] It is located on Highway 150 north of Independence and south of Hazleton , at 42.579132N, -91.905063W. [ 2 ]
Emmett Brown, 55, was last seen in November 2024