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The Christian community at Hestand is an independent community with many Amish features, like Plain dress, horse and buggy transportation, no telephones, etc., but without fellowship with other Amish communities. It has a "lower strictness level" than the Noah Hoover Mennonites of Scottsville, Kentucky, or the Caneyville Christian Community. [3]
Amish youth groups listening to a tour guide at Behalt. The center houses Behalt, a 10 ft x 265 ft cyclorama, [10] [11] also known as a mural-in-the-round, illustrating the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from their origin in Switzerland (circa 1525) to the present day.
Casselton Mennonite Church, Casselton, North Dakota, built as an Episcopal church, was a Mennonite church during 1950-2002, NRHP-listed; Charity Christian Fellowship; College Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana; Eighth Street Mennonite Church, Goshen, Indiana; Former Reformed Mennonite Church, Williamsville, New York, NRHP-listed
The Pletchers incorporated Amish Acres after the successful bid with investors Freemon Borkholder, Ivo Heckaman, and Gordon McCormick. These investors were successful business entrepreneurs in Nappanee. Shortly after the opening of the farm, a dispute about Sunday opening led Mr. Borkholder, an Amish-Mennonite, to sell his interest in the project.
The Kauffman Amish Mennonites, also called Sleeping Preacher Churches or Tampico Amish Mennonite Churches, are a Plain branch of the Amish Mennonites whose tradition goes back to John D. Kauffman (1847–1913) who preached while being in trance. In 2017, they had some 2,000 baptized members and lived mainly in Missouri and Arkansas.
More tourists visit Berlin, permanent population 685, than any other town in Ohio Amish Country. [14]: 83 Berlin was the first town in Ohio to market the Amish to tourists. [14]: 83 Berlin's business district is large, with as of 2012 more than 40 shops, 10 hotels, and multiple restaurants large and small.
The community was founded by Amish from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but few settlers moved to the area because Maryland was a slave state at the time. Few Amish people crossed the Mason–Dixon line, due to the Amish opposition to slavery. An Amish meetinghouse was constructed in 1899, but the community never grew large.
Oak Grove started as an Amish church in 1818, as many Amish started settling in Wayne County, Ohio. From humble beginnings the church grew and built a meetinghouse in 1862, one of the earliest of such meetinghouses the Amish have built. A notable leader of the Amish church at this time was bishop John K. Yoder, who led the church from 1855–1906.
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