Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are ...
Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther ...
This year, the number of Amish people in the United States passed the 400,000 mark, according to the Amish Studies Center at Elizabethtown College. The U.S. Amish population now totals 404,575, with ...
Lyndonville, according to Floyd Yoder, is what the Amish call a "horse-and-buggy town." It's perfect, many say, for a population of folks who actually drive around in them. "It's a small town, not too ...
Editor's note: The members of this Amish community did not want the faces of individual members featured in photos. The Forum honored that request. FERTILE, Minn. - Edwin Lambright stops in his tracks ...
Affordable rural farmland and proximity to traditional population centers are driving a boomlet of Amish colonies in New York state, according to a study by Elizabethtown College researchers. The ...
FERTILE, Minn. -- Edwin Lambright stops in his tracks and looks down at the ground. He stoops over, parts the grass with his hands and points out three eggs cradled in a round, perfectly constructed ...
Settlements springing up in Colorado, Montana, where cropland is inexpensive. WESTCLIFFE, Colo. — A new road sign cautions drivers to watch for Amish horse-drawn carriages in the valley beneath ...
SCHUYLER COUNTY, Mo. (AP) - The abundance of cheap land is drawing Amish people to rural northern Missouri.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Tuesday that about 10,000 Amish now call Missouri home, ...
Copies of Old Order Amish legal filings challenging Sugar Grove Township’s attempts to force the Amish to hook up to sewer lines are pictured. Times Observer file photo After years of legal wrangling, ...
WESTCLIFFE, Colo. - A new road sign cautions drivers to watch for Amish horse-drawn carriages in the valley beneath Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains. Highway pull-offs and dedicated ...