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An Amish farmer raking hay. The Holmes County community was founded in 1808 and the Geauga County community in 1886. [4]: 139 At the time of the Holmes County settlement's founding there was at least one sizable village of Native Americans on the northern edge of what would become Holmes County, near the Killbuck river.
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]
Millersburg is a village and the county seat of Holmes County, Ohio, United States. [8] Located 66 miles (106 km) south of Cleveland, it is in the heart of Ohio's Amish Country and is part of a large regional tourism industry. [9]
Amish youth groups listening to a tour guide at Behalt. The center houses Behalt, a 10 ft x 265 ft cyclorama, [10] [11] also known as a mural-in-the-round, illustrating the heritage of the Amish and Mennonite people from their origin in Switzerland (circa 1525) to the present day.
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.
Berlin (/ˈbɝːlɪn/ BUR-lin [3]) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Berlin Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,447. [5] Located in Ohio's Amish Country, the village is part of a large regional tourism industry. [6]
Middlefield is a village in Geauga County, Ohio, United States.The population was 2,748 at the 2020 census.It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.Middlefield is known for being the center of the world's fourth largest Amish settlement, [4] and its significant manufacturing base, which includes Gold Key Processing, Inc., Duncan Toys and KraftMaid.
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."