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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.
The Hochstetler massacre was an attack on a farmstead at the Northkill Amish Settlement in September or October 1757, in which three Amish settlers were killed and three others taken into captivity. The attack was one of many assaults by French-allied Native American warriors on Pennsylvania settlements during the French and Indian War .
In 1736, several Amish families purchased land along Northkill Creek. The Northkill Amish Settlement was the first organized Amish congregation in the U.S. The Hochstetlers , Yoders , Hetzlers and Millers were joined by Zugs, Jotters, Glicks , Kauffmans , and Bishop Jacob Hartzler, and eventually included more than 150 residents.
[1] [6] [11]: xix The Spatz family and other settlers were killed at a spring near modern-day Strausstown, probably Little Northkill Creek (sometimes called Degler Spring, [12] a tributary of Northkill Creek), causing the water to run red with the blood of the family. [1] [13]: 90 An application was made to Conrad Weiser in Reading for help.
Virginia state line: Jolo — — WV 705: 3.5: 5.6 US 19 in Morgantown: US 119 in Morgantown — — WV 707 — — WV 279 in McAlpin: WV 131 in McAlpin proposed — Proposed upgrade of CR 707 (FBI Center Road) WV 807: 0.35: 0.56 Ohio state line: St. Marys — — WV 817: 26.12: 42.04 St. Albans: Fraziers Bottom: 2008: current WV 857 — — US ...
The families came from western Kentucky and are involved in farming, according to the Amish America blog. Another Amish settlement existed in Burke's Garden from about 1990 to 1999.
About 300 people and 14 Amish families live there, where they are "very well-loved and respected," Hansford said. ... The semi was eastbound on State 95, approaching the intersection, when the van ...
West Virginia state highways have a square-shaped highway shield. [1] West Virginia has a system of secondary state highways that are functionally similar to county roads in most other states. Secondary road designations are only unique within each county. There are two types of secondary roads: [1]