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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 ...
The Yates County Old Order Mennonites settlement is the largest horse-and-buggy community in the state of New York. [6] There are also several Old Order Amish settlements in adjacent Steuben and Seneca counties, which were founded starting in 1979. [7]
It is the largest Amish settlement in the South. [13] The settlement near Lodi and Homerville, Ohio, which was founded in 1952 had 14 church districts around 2013 with a population of 2,148 people. In 1975 the settlement near Heuvelton, New York, was founded, that had 12 church districts around 2013 with a population of 1,671 people.
Karen Johnson-Weiner: New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2010. Charles Hurst and David McConnell: An Amish Paradox. Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
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]
On "Return to Amish," Mary was back from her trip to New York City, where she went to nightclubs and took pictures -- two big Amish no-nos. Mary called her trip "the best time ever" –- but her ...
Most Swiss Amish are located in Indiana, but there are Swiss Amish settlements in other states, most notably in Michigan, New York, Missouri and Ohio. The largest Swiss Amish settlement is located in Adams County, Indiana, near Berne with a total Amish population of 8,595 people in 2017. [13]
The New Lebanon Bishopric, the primary bishopric unit, was located in New York and included the Mount Lebanon and Watervliet Shaker Villages, [6] as well as, after 1859, Groveland Shaker Village. In addition to its own member communities, the ministry of New Lebanon Bishopric oversaw all other Shaker bishoprics and communes.