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The Hans Herr House, also known as the Christian Herr House, is a historic home located in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1719, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, rectangular sandstone Germanic dwelling. It measures 37 feet, 9 inches, by 30 feet, 10 inches.
In 1774, Boehm opened his home to a Methodist group that needed a place to meet. Soon the members of his family became Methodists, while he remained a Mennonite. Boehm's Chapel. In 1791 Boehm donated land six miles south of Lancaster to that Methodist group to build religious buildings. That same year a church was built and named Boehm's Chapel.
Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC) is a historic body of Mennonite churches mainly concentrated in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. While including churches in other regions of the United States, it also has congregations in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. [ 1 ]
The original church was founded in 1845 when a split occurred in the Lancaster Mennonite Conference in Lancaster County, PA. The more conservative group formed a new church called the Piker Mennonites because their meeting house stood near the “pike” U.S. Route 322 in Earl Township near Hinkletown .
The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and Related Areas is a Church of Conservative Mennonites organized in 1969 as conservatives withdrew from the Lancaster Mennonite Conference. [1] As of 1996 it was the largest Conservative Mennonite group.
The Intelligencer Journal, known locally as the Intell, was the daily, morning newspaper published by Lancaster Newspapers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.It is the seventh-oldest newspaper in the United States, and was one of the oldest newspapers to be continually published under the same name.
Mar. 6—By the end of this year, Abilene will have new housing units available for older adults. Abilene Court, a housing project by Mennonite Housing in Wichita, will be a 32-unit housing ...
Winters was born in New Holland, Pennsylvania, [3]: 4 to Richard and Edith Winters on January 21, 1918. [4] The family soon moved to nearby Ephrata, and then to Lancaster when he was eight years old. [3]: 4 He graduated from Lancaster Boys High School in 1937 and attended Franklin and Marshall College. [4] [3]: 6