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[5] [7] Lehman's asked an Amish-staffed construction company to perform the deconstruction and reconstruction to honor the store's Amish heritage and give the structure the same integrity as it had when first built. [7] In 2012, Lehman's updated the front of their store, restoring it to the business's original look when it first opened in 1955.
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.
In 1984 Ellsworth was named the State's Cheese Curd Capital because of the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery. [4] The Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery opened a store in 2010 in Rochester, Minnesota called "The Country Creamery". Similar to the co-op in Ellsworth, the Rochester store sells milk, butter, cheese, and cheese curds. [5]
Cup cheese is a soft, spreadable cheese rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch culinary history. Its heritage dates back to the immigration of the Mennonites and Amish to Pennsylvania in the late 17th century. [1] A variation of the German cheese "Kochkäse", it is a specialty food labeled as cup cheese because it is sold in a cup.
American-style farmer cheese (also farmer's cheese or farmers' cheese) is pressed curds, an unripened cheese made by adding rennet and bacterial starter to coagulate and acidify milk. Farmer cheese may be made from the milk of cows , sheep or goats , with each giving its own texture and flavor.
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]
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.
Amish Acres from the entrance. Riding a wagon at Amish Acres. The Barns at Nappanee, Home of Amish Acres, formerly known solely as Amish Acres, is a tourist attraction in Nappanee, Indiana, created from an eighty-acre (thirty-two-hectare) Old Order Amish farm. The farm was purchased in October 1968 at auction from the Manasses Kuhns’ estate.