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2. Lancaster Amish affiliation - Wikipedia

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   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 Amish settlement that is still in existence.

3. 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 ...

4. List of covered bridges in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

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   Three of the bridges, Buck Hill Covered Bridge, Schenck's Mill Covered Bridge, and Shearer's Covered Bridge, have horizontal side boards. The rest of the bridges have vertical side boards. The traditional colors of a Lancaster County covered bridge: red sides and white portals. An example of the Burr arch truss design used in most of Lancaster ...

5. Wheatland (James Buchanan House) - Wikipedia

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   March 20, 1986. Designated PHMC. March 17, 1947 and May 14, 1971 [2] Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick Federal style house which is located in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, outside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was formerly owned by the 15th president of the United States, James Buchanan .

6. Red Caboose Motel - Wikipedia

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   Red Caboose Motel. The Red Caboose Motel (originally named the Red Caboose Lodge) is a 48-room train motel in the Amish country near Ronks, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, [2] where guests stay in railroad cabooses. [3] The motel consists of over three dozen cabooses and other railroad cars, such as dining cars that serve as a restaurant.

7. 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]

8. Amish youth experience a rite of passage called Rumspringa ...

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   Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has the largest Amish population in the US, numbering around 30,000. Among this population, there are roughly 229 different Amish districts , each with their own ...

9. Amish - Wikipedia

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   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 ...