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The Amish have settled in as many as 32 US-states though about 2/3 are located in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The largest Amish settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and adjacent counties followed by Holmes and adjoining counties in northeast Ohio, about 78 miles south of Cleveland.
Most of the Amish that came to Indiana believed in sprinkling new members. In 1984, A Rush County Retrospect article written by Laura Schmidt described some of the Amish convictions: "The young ...
Washington is a city in Daviess County, Indiana, United States.The population was 12,017 at the time of the 2020 census.The city is the county seat of Daviess County. [6] It is also the principal city of the Washington, Indiana Micropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises all of Daviess County and had an estimated 2017 population of 31,648.
Washington County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census , the population was 28,182. [ 1 ] The county seat (and the county's only incorporated city) is Salem . [ 2 ]
Daviess County / ˈ d eɪ v iː z / is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 33,381. [2] The county seat is Washington. [3] About 15% of the county's population is Amish of Swiss origin, as of 2017. [4]
The Amish community in Adams County belongs the Swiss Amish, which is an Amish affiliation whose ancestors came to Adam County in 1840 and who speak a Bernese dialect in everyday life. They had a total population of 8,595 people in 58 congregations in 2017, [ 10 ] or 24.2% of the county's population.
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.
As of the census [8] of 2010, there were 128 people, 45 households, and 37 families living in the town. The population density was 123.1 inhabitants per square mile (47.5/km 2).