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There are Amish settlements in four Canadian provinces, Ontario, founded in the 1820s, Manitoba, founded in 2018, [24] New Brunswick in 2015 and Prince Edward Island, in 2016. There was an Amish settlement in Honduras from about 1968 to 1978 but the settlement failed. [25] In 2015 new settlements of New Order Amish were founded in Argentina and ...
Faunsdale is a town in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 90, [2] down from 98 in 2010. Faunsdale is home to a community of Holdeman Mennonites, the only such community outside of Greensboro, Alabama. The town has the only Holdeman Mennonite Church in the area, Cedarcrest Mennonite Church.
The first Europeans to make contact with Alabama were the Spanish, with the first permanent European settlement being Mobile, established by the French in 1702. After being a part of the Mississippi Territory (1798–1817) and then the Alabama Territory (1817–1819), Alabama would become a U.S. state on December 14, 1819.
At about the same time a new settlement was founded near Perth-Andover in New Brunswick, only about 12 km (7.5 mi) from Amish settlements in Maine. In 2017, an Amish settlement was founded in Manitoba near Stuartburn. [110] In 2024 this colony ceased to exist, as the Amish have sold their properties and moved to Minnesota. [1]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760, is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence. Even though the Lancaster affiliation is quite liberal concerning the use of technology, compared to other Amish affiliations, it is an affiliation that practices strenge Meidung (strict shunning ). [ 17 ]
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Aliceville is a city in Pickens County, Alabama, United States, located thirty-six miles west of Tuscaloosa. At the 2010 census its population was 2,486, down from 2,567 in 2000. Founded in the first decade of the 20th century and incorporated in 1907, [2] the city has become notable for its World War II-era prisoner-of-war camp, Camp ...