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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]
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse.
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.
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. / 39.95889°N 76.08056°W / 39.95889; -76.08056. 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.
An explosion ripped through a hotel in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, leaving one person dead, police said. The blast occurred around 2:30 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn in Lancaster ...
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 ...
Leacock-Leola-Bareville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 6,625. The area is heavily populated by the Amish and Mennonites. Bareville is often named in lists of "delightfully-named towns" in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse ...
Pennsylvania State Police investigators are still working to determine a motive in the killing of a 23-year-old Amish woman in her Fish Flats Road home in Sparta Township, Crawford County, on Feb. 26.