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Area • Total. 1,219 sq mi (3,160 km 2) ... Amish at 1,986 adherents, United Church of Christ at 959 adherents, Wisconsin Synod Lutheran at 891 adherents, and United ...
Area • Total. 816 sq mi (2,110 km 2) ... Amish at 2,786 adherents, United Methodist at 1,533 adherents, Wisconsin Synod Lutheran at 1,402 adherents, and Non ...
The economy of Cashton is closely tied to Wisconsin agriculture. The organic foods cooperative Organic Valley, headquartered in nearby La Farge, Wisconsin, employs over 275 people at its Cashton offices and distribution center. [12] The area is also home to many Amish shops and food producers. [13]
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%."
Seven of the nine victims killed Friday in a crash in west-central Wisconsin were members of an Amish community from a remote Appalachian region in Virginia.. The Clark County crash, one of the ...
The surrounding countryside is mainly occupied by dairy farmers and an Amish community. [5] Dalton has an area of 0.456 square miles (1.18 km 2); 0.449 square miles (1.16 km 2) of this is land, and 0.007 square miles (0.018 km 2) is water. Dalton was named for John Dalton, who emigrated from Ireland with his family in the early 1850s. [6]
The nine deaths tie the crash for the second-deadliest crash in Wisconsin history. Nine people also died in a crash in 1937 in Manitowoc County, according to Wisconsin Watch. The deadliest crash ...
The majority of affiliations reflects mainly the different local Ordnungen (Orders) in different Amish settlements, e.g., Lancaster Amish, Elkhart-LaGrange Amish or Holmes Old Order Amish, even though there are also other differences. Other affiliations are the result of splits over major questions, such as shunning, and reflect Ordnungen that ...