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  2. Pennsylvania Dutch Country - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie Deitschland ), or Pennsylvania Dutchland, [4] [5] is a region of German Pennsylvania spanning the Delaware Valley and South Central and Northeastern regions of Pennsylvania . By the American Revolution in the 18th century, the region had a high percentage of Pennsylvania Dutch ...

  3. Pennsylvania Dutch - Wikipedia

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    The Pennsylvania Dutch ( Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanisch Deitsche ), [1] [2] [3] commonly referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other regions of the United States, predominantly in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nation. [4] [5] [6] They largely descend from the Palatinate region of Germany, and settled ...

  4. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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    Hex sign. 12-pointed compass rose on a hex sign. Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. [1] Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later ...

  5. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania. ( 2020) 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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 552,984, making it Pennsylvania's sixth-most populous county. [2]

  6. Germany Valley - Wikipedia

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    38°45′54″N 79°23′24″W. /  38.76500°N 79.39000°W  / 38.76500; -79.39000. Germany Valley is a scenic upland valley high in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia originally settled by German (including Pennsylvania Dutch) farmers in the mid-18th century. It is today a part of the Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks National ...

  7. Ohio Amish Country - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cuisine of the Pennsylvania Dutch - Wikipedia

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    Bacon gravy. Chicken and waffles. Chicken corn soup—made with egg noodles and sometimes saffron, which has been cultivated in Pennsylvania Dutch country since the early 19th century; egg noodles, corn, hard boiled eggs, and chicken. [1] Sometimes an addition is rivels, small dumplings. Chow-chow.

  9. Geography of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania is 180 miles (290 km) north to south and 310 miles (500 km) east to west. The total land area is 44,817 square miles (116,080 km 2 )—739,200 acres (2,991 km 2) of which are bodies of water. It is the 33rd largest state in the United States. The state's highest point is 3,213 feet (979 m) above sea level at Mount Davis.