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  2. Dutch Wonderland - Wikipedia

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    Dutch Wonderland is a 48-acre (19 ha) theme park just east of Lancaster, Pennsylvania in East Lampeter Township, appealing primarily to families with small children. The park's theme is a "Kingdom for Kids." The entrance to the park has a stone imitation castle façade, which was built by Earl Clark, a potato farmer, before he opened the park ...

  3. 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. ... Amish communities are built around rural activities like farming and handcraft, and the ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Amish - Wikipedia

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    Traditional, Lancaster style Amish buggy Amish school near Rebersburg, Pennsylvania. As time has passed, the Amish have felt pressures from the modern world. Issues such as taxation, education, law and its enforcement, and occasional discrimination and hostility are areas of difficulty. [citation needed]

  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. Spring for Amish in Pennsylvania means 'mud sales,' from ...

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    Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire departments across what the Amish community refers to as the Lancaster settlement, located some 70 miles (113 kilometers) west of ...

  9. Subgroups of Amish - Wikipedia

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    Old Order Amish groups include the Byler group, Nebraska Amish in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, the Reno group, and the Swartzentruber Amish in Holmes County, Ohio . Old Order Amish subscribe to the Dordrecht Confession of Faith, a Dutch Mennonite Confession of Faith adopted in 1632.

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