http://amishamerica.com/amish-settlemen/ Exploring Amish Culture and Communities Wed, 22 May 2013 01:02:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://amishamerica.com/amish-settlemen/comment-page-1/#comment-28125 Courtney Bargerhuff Mon, 07 May 2012 21:35:58 +0000 http://www.amishamerica.com/2008/03/amish-settlemen.html#comment-28125 Thank you, Erik, for your information!

]]> http://amishamerica.com/amish-settlemen/comment-page-1/#comment-28101 Erik/Amish America Mon, 07 May 2012 12:23:06 +0000 http://www.amishamerica.com/2008/03/amish-settlemen.html#comment-28101 Courtney there is a pretty extensive 8-page history on this community but it looks like there were a few causes, including that a promised railroad (for marketing crops in cities) was never built, ministry never settled there, and political instability with harassment by rebels was ongoing, all factors that discouraged the settlers living there. At some point visitors were apparently prevented from entering the country as well which probably didn’t help the outlook either.

]]> http://amishamerica.com/amish-settlemen/comment-page-1/#comment-28097 Courtney Bargerhuff Sun, 06 May 2012 18:36:34 +0000 http://www.amishamerica.com/2008/03/amish-settlemen.html#comment-28097 At the end of Dale Cramer’s book Paradise Valley, he refers to the comprehensive written record of the Paradise Valley settlement in Mexico in David Luthy’s book about Amish settlements that failed. Why did this Mexico settlement fail?

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