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More tourists visit Berlin, permanent population 685, than any other town in Ohio Amish Country. [29]: 83 Berlin was the first town in Ohio to market the Amish to tourists. [29]: 83 Berlin's business district is large, with as of 2012 more than 40 shops, 10 hotels, and multiple restaurants large and small.
The county was created in 1830 in Indiana out of the Indiana Territory following the creation of the State of Ohio. Colonel John Jackson was sent into the area to eradicate the Potawatomi Indians living in a village on the Elkhart River near present-day Baintertown. U.S. Government forces destroyed the abandoned village twice in the decade.
Nappanee's Amish originate from the early Amish immigrants from southwest Germany, notably the Palatinate, to Pennsylvania in the middle of the 18th century. [ 19 ] Amish families who became Old Order Amish in the second half of the 19th century first arrived in southwest Elkhart County in the early 1840s, and various other religious ...
Its origin and main settlement lie in Elkhart and LaGrange counties in Indiana. While the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, and adjacent counties split into several different affiliations in the last 100 years, the Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation remained united, but with a considerable internal diversity. The Elkhart-LaGrange affiliation had 177 ...
From Jan. 1, 2019, through the end of June, 2024, there have been 137 buggy-related accidents in Wayne County and 75 in Holmes County, according to data from Ohio State Highway Patrol Statistics ...
Feb. 14—This is the 22nd article written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial. Forty-eight years ago I wrote a graduate paper about Amish education. The paper was titled The Educational ...
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