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The Mennonite Heritage Center is a museum, library and exhibition space in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, United States, 32 miles (51 km) northwest of Philadelphia, about the Mennonites of Eastern Pennsylvania.
The Alleghany Mennonite Meetinghouse is located at 39 Horning Road in, Brecknock Township, Pennsylvania. The meetinghouse and its associated cemetery are significant for their role in the Mennonite community in this area of Pennsylvania in the mid to late 19th century. The meetinghouse is significant for its Pennsylvania German-style ...
Most of the settlers had a Mennonite background but joined the Quaker meeting. Sometime around 1690, several families attended non-Quaker services; the subsequently built a log church in 1708. This church was the first Mennonite Church in America. William Rittenhouse was its first minister. The log church was replaced by the present church at ...
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The Hans Herr House was purchased by Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in 1969. In the early 1970s the property underwent extensive renovations led by Ira Landis to restore it to resemble the original Herr residence. [4]
The Groffdale Conference Mennonite Church, also called Wenger Mennonites, is the largest Old Order Mennonite group to use horse-drawn carriages for transportation. Along with the automobile, they reject many modern conveniences , while allowing electricity in their homes and steel-wheeled tractors to till the fields.
The Hess Homestead, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a historic Mennonite farmstead near the town of Lititz. The property is an ancestral home of the Hess family, [ 1 ] who purchased the land from William Penn 's sons in 1735.
The transfer of the deed from the Rhoad family to the Vincent Mennonite Congregation was not made until 12 June 1798. John Rhoad sold the property and grounds to Henry Acker, Sr., and Jacob Finkbiner, who acted on behalf of the Vincent Mennonite Church, the deed stating: “a lot or piece of land situated in the said Township of Vincent, bounded by lands of John Rhoades, containing two acres ...