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2. Lancaster Amish affiliation - Wikipedia

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   A grey top buggy of the Lancaster Amish affiliation. The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [ 1 ] is the oldest ...

3. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.co.lancaster.pa.us. Lancaster County (/ ˈlæŋkɪstər /; Pennsylvania Dutch: Lengeschder Kaundi), sometimes nicknamed the Garden Spot of America or Pennsylvania Dutch Country, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most ...

4. Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church - Wikipedia

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   Church services at the Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church had been conducted exclusively in High German and Pennsylvania Dutch until 1966; since then services have been conducted in English. Congregational singing has always been unaccompanied by musical instruments. Youth generally attend high school and occasionally college.

5. New Order Amish - Wikipedia

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   New Order Amish. The New Order Amish are a subgroup of Amish that split away from the Old Order Amish in the 1960s for a variety of reasons, which included a desire for "clean" youth courting standards, meaning they do not condone the practice of bundling (non-sexual lying in bed together) during courtship.

6. Subgroups of Amish - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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   17562. Area code. 717. GNIS feature ID. 1182445 [1] Nickel Mines is a hamlet that is located in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The zip code is 17562 and the area code is 717. The area now has a sizable Amish community.

8. Lancaster Historic District (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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   Lancaster Historic District (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) The Lancaster Historic District, also known as Old Town Lancaster, is a national historic district that is located in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with boundary increases in 1983 and 1984.

9. Central Market (Lancaster) - Wikipedia

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   72001127 [1] Added to NRHP. July 12, 1972. Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, is a historic public market located in Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Until 2005, when it was transferred to a trust, the market was the oldest municipally-operated market in the United States. [2]