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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.
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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.
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.
5700 Perkiomen Ave. (US 422), near Lincoln Rd., Reading / Exeter Twp. Roadside Abraham Lincoln, Early Settlement, Government & Politics 18th Century, Houses & Homesteads Northkill Amish: June 26, 1959: Old U.S. 22, 1 mile W of Shartlesville
About 300 people and 14 Amish families live there, where they are "very well-loved and respected," Hansford said. "They've made an indelible imprint on on our community," Hansford said.
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Core, West Virginia and Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, United States.Located on the boundary between Monongalia County, West Virginia and Greene County, Pennsylvania, [1] it identifies the terminal station established by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on Brown's Hill.