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The village has a notable Amish community which is part of the greater Holmes County Amish settlement. Sugarcreek supports a Swiss heritage and Amish centered tourism industry, is the headquarters of The Budget weekly newspaper, the most important Amish newspaper, and has several large production facilities of the Belden Brick Company.
Swiss immigrants arrived in the early 1830s and used the milk from Amish dairy farms to produce their cheese and in the 1950s created an annual Ohio Swiss Festival; the success of early festivals as an attraction for tourists resulted in local business leaders transforming the town into a Swiss village starting in 1965.
Location of Stark County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Stark County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Stark County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National ...
Yodeling, a grand parade, the Steinstossen contest and lots of great food highlight the 70th Ohio Swiss Festival, which begins Thursday in Sugarcreek.
Kidron was originally settled in 1819 by a group of Swiss Mennonites wishing to escape religious persecution and poor farming conditions in their homeland in the Sonnenberg area of Switzerland near the Jura Mountains. In Switzerland, the Swiss Mennonites were referred to as "Die Stillen im Lande" meaning "the quiet people in the country." They ...
A large Amish community of about 36,000 exists in Northeast-Central Ohio, centered on Holmes County and extending into surrounding counties. [39] The Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation , with 140 church districts out of 221 in the Holmes County Amish settlement in 2009, is the main and dominant Amish affiliation. [ 40 ]
A mayor of a small village in Ohio is sounding the alarm about an influx of migrants into the village, where they have put pressure on services and finances.
The project is both a celebration and a preservation effort, helping to tell Ohio's story for the next 50 years and beyond, organizers say. Ohio Village to close for two-year renovation project ...