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The Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival, held the first weekend in August (Thursday through Sunday, 05–8 August 2021, subject to cancellation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic) in Nappanee, Indiana, celebrated 62 years in 2022. It features 350 artists and craftsmen in a marketplace surrounding the farm's pond. Over $10,000 in cash prizes are ...
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.
The fountain in the middle of the plaza was designed by Irving Gill, which he modeled after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. Louis J. Wilde, banker and part-owner of the U. S. Grant Hotel, donated $10,000 to help build the fountain, [ 5 ] which was completed in 1910. [ 3 ]
During the next decade, A. F. Gilmore announced in 1998 a further scaled down plan with Caruso Affiliated as the new development partner for a new proposal that eventually became The Grove at Farmers Market, a $100-million project on 25 acres (10 ha). [6] Nordstrom signed on in 2001 to build a 122,000 sq ft (11,300 m 2) store.
[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.
California's largest and oldest walnut tree is in Wood Colony on the corner of Dakota and North avenues was planted by early settler, Jacob Cover. [5] Cover planted the first walnut orchard in Stanislaus County.Stanislaus Stepping Stones Newsletter. [6] The first Wood Colony Country Fair and Colony Tour was held on Saturday, August 16, 2014. [7]
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The Negro Trailblazers of California,. A Compilation of Records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the Diaries, Old Papers, and Conversations of Old Pioneers in the State of California (1919). reprinted in 1997 and 2004. pp. 141, 151–157, 287–288. Wheeler, B. Gordon.