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  2. Rumspringa - Wikipedia

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    Rumspringa ( Pennsylvania German pronunciation: [ˈrʊmˌʃprɪŋə] ), [2] also spelled Rumschpringe or Rumshpringa, is a rite of passage during adolescence, translated from originally Palatine German and other Southwest German dialects to English as "jumping or hopping around", used in some Amish communities. The Amish, a subsect of the ...

  3. Amish in Maryland - Wikipedia

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    The Amish community in Long Green was founded in 1833 and lasted for 120 years, before disappearing in the 1950s. The community was founded by Amish from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, but few settlers moved to the area because Maryland was a slave state at the time. Few Amish people crossed the Mason–Dixon line, due to the Amish opposition ...

  4. Amish doll - Wikipedia

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    An Amish doll is best described as a plain rag doll usually lacking physical features of a face and hair. [3] It is also thought that a face on a doll makes it appear more worldly, which is not considered acceptable among the Amish. Not all Amish dolls, however, are faceless. Clothing on Amish dolls is similar to that worn by Amish children.

  5. West Nickel Mines School shooting - Wikipedia

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    Charles Carl Roberts IV. 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 ...

  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. Central Market (Lancaster) - Wikipedia

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    Central Market (Lancaster) /  40.033°N 76.300°W  / 40.033; -76.300. Central Market, also known as Lancaster Central Market, is a historic public market located in Penn Square, in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Until 2005, the market was the oldest municipally-operated market in the United States. [2]

  8. Swartzentruber Amish - Wikipedia

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    The Swartzentruber Amish formed as a result of a division that occurred among the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in the years 1913–1917. The bishop who broke away was Sam E. Yoder. The Swartzentruber name was applied later, named after bishop Samuel Swartzentruber who succeeded him. In 1932 there was a split among the Swartzentrubers that ...

  9. Lancaster, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    Lancaster, Pennsylvania. /  40.03972°N 76.30444°W  / 40.03972; -76.30444. Lancaster ( / ˈlæŋkɪstər / LANG-ki-stər) is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest inland cities in the United States. [4] With a population of 58,039 at the 2020 census, [5] it is the tenth-most-populous city ...

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