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An Amish farmer raking hay. The Holmes County community was founded in 1808 and the Geauga County community in 1886. [4]: 139 At the time of the Holmes County settlement's founding there was at least one sizable village of Native Americans on the northern edge of what would become Holmes County, near the Killbuck river.
The Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center is located at 5798 County Road 77 near Bunker Hill in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, the world's high-density area of Amish and a large population of other Anabaptists.
A large share of the early settlers of the Berlin area were of German or Swiss ancestry and came to Ohio from Pennsylvania. In 1818, a school was established in Berlin and in 1822 a post office. [8] These were soon followed by Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Mennonite churches. Later, Amish settlers began to arrive.
The Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin explains traditional ways of the Amish and provides an illustrated history for visitors in its 10-foot-by-265-foot mural. [42] The overall Amish population of the area, centered on Holmes County, is the largest Amish community in the world. [39]
Millersburg is a village and the county seat of Holmes County, Ohio, United States. [8] Located 66 miles (106 km) south of Cleveland, it is in the heart of Ohio's Amish Country and is part of a large regional tourism industry. [9]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.40 square miles (8.81 km 2), of which, 3.39 square miles (8.78 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [10] Mount Gilead is considered to be a part of "Mid Ohio."
According to Albrecht Powell, the Pennsylvania Amish has not always been the largest group of U.S. Amish as is commonly thought. The Amish population in the U.S. numbers more than 390,000 and is growing rapidly (around 3-4% per year), due to large family size (seven children on average) and a church-member retention rate of approximately 80%."
Middlefield is a village in Geauga County, Ohio, United States.The population was 2,748 at the 2020 census.It is part of the Cleveland metropolitan area.Middlefield is known for being the center of the world's fourth largest Amish settlement, [4] and its significant manufacturing base, which includes Gold Key Processing, Inc., Duncan Toys and KraftMaid.