The Amish Country of Lancaster County Welcome to this overview of the Amish, the Mennonites, the Brethren, and the other “Plain People” of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country /Lancaster County, PA. The farmlands of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country are among the most productive in the nation. Many ...
In 1708 a school and meeting-house were erected by them in Germantown, Pa. In the following year another colony was established in what is now known as Lancaster County, Pa. Other emigrations followed in 1711,1717,1727, and 1733 successively. In 1735 there were nearly if not quite 500 ...
Lancaster County, PA, where many of the surveys were conducted, has only 0.1% of farms (20 farms) whose herd size are above 500, making average herd size the lowest in the nation (Cross, 2015). These smaller herd sizes may be attributed to the high numbers of Plain farmers in this ...
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