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Counties with Amish settlements in 2021. Old Order Amish population growth in the 20th century. There were 32 states of the United States with an Amish population in 2022 that consists of at least one Amish settlement of Old or New Order Amish, excluding more modern Amish groups like e.g. the Beachy Amish. New Order Amish are seen as part of ...
The Amish settlement in Daviess County, Indiana with a total Amish population of 4,855 people in 2017 was originally settled mostly by Swiss Amish but switched to Pennsylvania German language over time. [13] [14] A large Swiss Amish settlement was founded in 1968 near Seymour, Missouri. It consisted of 16 church districts in 2017 and a total ...
The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [ 2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch ( Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvanisch Deitsche ), [ 1][ 2][ 3] also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other regions of the United States, predominantly in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nation. [ 4][ 5] They largely originate from the Palatinate region of Germany, and settled in ...
The largest centered around Holmes and Geauga Counties. The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
The Old Order Amish faith was an outgrowth of the Reformation Anabaptist Movement in central Europe. Anabaptists in the 1500's were anti-Catholic and believed in a "rebaptism" in Christ.
Northkill Amish. The Northkill Amish Settlement was established in 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. As the first identifiable Amish community in the new world, [ 1] it was the foundation of Amish settlement in the Americas. By the 1780s it had become the largest Amish settlement, but declined as families moved elsewhere.
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.