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The Lancaster Mennonite Conference first convened in 1711, only a few months after the Swiss-Palatine immigrants had established themselves in what is now Lancaster County. In 1725, five representatives, Martin Baer, Hans Burkholtzer, Christian Herr, Benedikt Hirsche, and Johannes Bowman, attended the first general Mennonite Conference when the ...
There are 209 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. The city of Lancaster is the location of 57 of these properties and districts; they are listed separately, while the 153 properties and districts in the other parts of the county are listed here. One property straddles the Lancaster city limits and appears on ...
Elizabethtown is located in northwestern Lancaster County at (40.153207, -76.600431). [9] Pennsylvania Route 230 passes through the center of town, leading northwest 18 miles (29 km) to Harrisburg and southeast 6 miles (10 km) to Mount Joy.
History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: With biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Closson Press, 1883) online; Henderson, Rodger C. "Demographic patterns and family structure in eighteenth-century Lancaster County, Pennsylvania." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 114.3 (1990): 349-383. online
The Amish have instead, staying in Lancaster County mostly, sought for other occupations. Initially concentrated in eastern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, they resided in eight other states as of 2002. [12] Church members use modern self-propelled farm machinery and lawn mowers that have been refitted with steel wheels.
The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [ 1 ] who purchased the land from William Penn 's sons in 1735.
Lancaster: Pennsylvania Dutch Country: Open air: Mennonite history, colonial and Victorian era farm life 1852 Herr Family Homestead: Landisville: Lancaster: Pennsylvania Dutch Country: Historic house: website, depicts life on a 19th-century Lancaster County farm AACA Museum: Hershey: Dauphin: Pennsylvania Dutch Country: Transportation - Automotive
In 2016 the main Pike Mennonite group, the Stauffer Old Order Mennonite group (as named in a 2020 May article), had a split culminating over the issue of insurance. Bishop Arthur Martin of Snyder County was the leading person who helped deepen the split among the membership, after being expelled and then reinstalled by a supporting Missouri bishop.