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Northkill Amish. The Northkill Amish Settlement was established in 1740 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. As the first identifiable Amish community in the new world, [1] it was the foundation of Amish settlement in the Americas. By the 1780s it had become the largest Amish settlement, but declined as families moved elsewhere.
In 1736, several Amish families purchased land along Northkill Creek. The Northkill Amish Settlement was the first organized Amish congregation in the U.S. The Hochstetlers , Yoders , Hetzlers and Millers were joined by Zugs, Jotters, Glicks , Kauffmans , and Bishop Jacob Hartzler, and eventually included more than 150 residents.
The Hochstetler massacre was an attack on a farmstead at the Northkill Amish Settlement in September or October 1757, in which three Amish settlers were killed and three others taken into captivity. The attack was one of many assaults by French-allied Native American warriors on Pennsylvania settlements during the French and Indian War.
Abraham Lincoln, Early Settlement, Government & Politics 18th Century, Houses & Homesteads Northkill Amish: June 26, 1959: Old U.S. 22, 1 mile W of Shartlesville: Roadside Early Settlement, Native American, Religion Oley Moravians: August 28, 1948
Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire departments across what the Amish community refers to as the Lancaster settlement, located some 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of ...
Nearly 400,000 exist nationwide across 654 individual settlements. The largest populations are recorded in Pennsylvania, ... R-Pa., whose district includes Amish stronghold Lancaster County, ...
[16]: 23–24 When attacks on Pennsylvania settlements began to threaten his community, Degler and his family took refuge at Fort Northkill. The Indians assumed that he had therefore become an enemy, and attacked his home. [17]: 901–02 After killing the Spatz family, the Lenape Indians went to the Degler home and ransacked it. [5]
The total Amish population in Pennsylvania is estimated to be about 93,000. ... area – home to the largest Amish settlement in the U.S. – was 43,640. He said when looking solely at Lancaster ...