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The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
The Bing Act of 1921 was an Ohio law, adopted April 29, 1921, that stated children between the ages of six and eighteen are required to attend school. There were two major exceptions to this law: a child who had already graduated high school did not have to stay in school until turning eighteen; and a child who was sixteen years old and had passed the seventh grade was allowed to work as a ...
There are diverse groups among the Amish, thereby creating distinctions within their Ordnung. The following is a general list and not exhaustive. [16] [17] Motorized vehicles are not to be owned or driven. The Amish may request a neighbor to drive them, or may hire a driver and rent a car. The Amish may not travel on an airplane.
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The Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation is a subgroup of Amish, that is almost only present at the Holmes-Wayne Amish settlement in Ohio. With 140 church districts there in 2009 it is the main and dominant Amish affiliation there, even though there were 61 another church districts of 10 other affiliations in the settlement. [ 1 ]
A peaceful culture of faith. Behalt is a 10-foot by 265-foot cyclorama mural painted by Heinz Gaugel over the course of 14 years. It was completed in 1990 and has served as a visual history of the ...
Amish make decisions about health, education, and relationships based on their Biblical interpretation. Amish life has influenced some things in popular culture. As the Amish are divided into the Old Order Amish, New Order Amish, and Beachy Amish, the way of life of families depends on the rule of the church community to which they belong.
The Ohio Ethics Commission also remains largely toothless to enforce laws as it can only investigate complaints. A more proactive effort might detect issues that currently escape any detection.