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Moses was the son of pioneer Christian Stahly who emigrated from Germany with his widowed mother Barbara and three brothers to the southwest corner of Elkhart County in 1839; making them, perhaps, the earliest Amish settlers in Indiana. Amish Acres opened to the public in June 1970 after more than a year of restoration.
Its origin and main settlement lie in Elkhart and LaGrange counties in Indiana. While the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, and adjacent counties split into several different affiliations in the last 100 years, the Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation remained united, but with a considerable internal diversity. The Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation had 177 ...
Location of Elkhart County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Elkhart County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
The Amish are a simple-living, plain-dressing, mostly rural people, originating in Central Europe, whose society spread from Pennsylvania and other eastern American states into rural areas to the west. JPEG file comment: Amish farm, evident from the absence of electric wires on the property, in Elkhart County, Indiana, near the town of Middlebury.
Location of Lagrange County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in LaGrange County, Indiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Middlebury is a town in Middlebury Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It is located approximately 35 miles east of South Bend, 130 miles east of Chicago, Illinois, and 165 miles north of Indianapolis. Middlebury is nestled in Northern Indiana's Amish country. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 3,420.
Morehous Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana.The district encompasses 110 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Elkhart.
Joseph and Sarah Puterbaugh Farm, also known as Puterbaugh-Haines House, is a historic home located in Concord Township, Elkhart County, Indiana. The house was built about 1860, and is a two-story, three-bay, Italianate style brick dwelling with a one-story setback wing. It has a hipped roof and features a portico supported by square columns.