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Amish settlements in Ohio. The largest centered around Holmes and Geauga Counties. The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group), with in 2023 an estimated 84,065 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
In 1931, the Josephinum moved to its present location just north of Worthington, Ohio and eleven miles (18 km) north of downtown Columbus on a landmark 100-acre (0.40 km 2) campus. [2] (The current size of the campus is slightly less than 97.5 acres (395,000 m 2) with another approximately 12-acre (49,000 m 2) parcel close by.)
Lehman's Hardware. Lehman's is a retail store located in Kidron, Ohio. Originally specializing in products used by the Amish community, it has become known worldwide as a source for non-electric goods. The 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2) facility bills itself as a "Low Tech Superstore" and a "Purveyor of Historical Technology", both of which are ...
The Swartzentruber Amish are an Old Order Amish group that is about as conservative as the Nebraska Amish but much more numerous and therefore much better known. They formed as the result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in 1917. The bishop who broke away was Sam E. Yoder.
Jul. 12—COLUMBUS GROVE — A new specialty grocery store is open in Columbus Grove. Farmhouse Market and Deli is now occupying the former Kohls Market, 108 W. Sycamore St., Columbus Grove. The ...
The Amish ( / ˈɑːmɪʃ /; Pennsylvania German: Amisch; German: Amische ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. [ 2] As they maintain a degree of separation from surrounding populations, and hold their faith in common, the Amish have been described ...
Master's university 2,942 1911 Ohio Northern University: Ada: Private not-for profit Baccalaureate college 3,695 1871 Ohio State University [18] Columbus: Public Doctoral/highest research university 58,322 1870 Ohio Technical College: Cleveland: Private for-profit Associate's college 1,500 1969 Ohio Wesleyan University: Delaware: Private not ...
Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation. The Holmes Old Order Amish affiliation is a subgroup of Amish, that is almost only present at the Holmes - Wayne Amish settlement in Ohio. With 140 church districts there in 2009 it is the main and dominant Amish affiliation there, even though there were 61 another church districts of 10 other affiliations in ...