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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.
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 Pennsylvania State Police seized evidence including broken knife pieces, firearms and spent shell casings in their search of a Fish Flats Road home in Sparta Township, Crawford County, where a ...
The Amish alone did not give Trump Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes. With 99% of the votes counted as of Monday evening, the Republican nominee led Vice President Kamala Harris by just over ...
Police in Pennsylvania are “aggressively investigating” after a young Amish woman was found dead inside her rural home, officials told news outlets. Pennsylvania State Police received a call ...
The attacks were part of the general war that came to be known as the French and Indian War. They happened all along the edge of the Blue Mountain in PA, and even down into Virginia. They were not directed at the Amish particularly, but any white settler was a potential victim. The Amish just happened to be the closest settlers to the mountain.
Nolt said that as of summer 2024, the estimated Amish population in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, area – home to the largest Amish settlement in the U.S. – was 43,640. He said when ...