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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.
Hochstetler family tradition says that Christian had been living in a village in Ohio and, after being handed over to Colonel Bouquet's troops at their camp on the Muskingum River, he made his way back to the Northkill Amish Settlement. In 1765, he arrived at the home when the family was eating dinner and they offered him food, not recognizing ...
[1] [6] [11]: xix The Spatz family and other settlers were killed at a spring near modern-day Strausstown, probably Little Northkill Creek (sometimes called Degler Spring, [12] a tributary of Northkill Creek), causing the water to run red with the blood of the family. [1] [13]: 90 An application was made to Conrad Weiser in Reading for help.
Four members of an Amish family were killed in a tragic accident. The community is responding by helping them recover. 'We're all in this together': Residents respond to deadly tragedy in the ...
Eleven members of an Amish family – including a 1-year-old – were hospitalized in Pennsylvania Friday night after ingesting wild, “toxic mushrooms,” local authorities said.
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 Daily Yonder reports that as the Amish population in America grows, Amish communities — and their rural neighbors — are finding ways to adapt. Across the country, Amish populations are on ...
Before European settlers arrived in the Tulpehocken Creek valley, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. [4] In 1723, thirty-three Palatine families from Schoharie, New York, moved to the confluences of the Tulpehocken and Northkill Creeks.