The Deep South is home to only one Amish settlement today, located near Randolph in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. The Randolph Amish settlement is a conservative Swartzentruber community, marked by highly limited technology and a very plain lifestyle. Historically, Amish have only occasionally settled in the Deep South region. This would include a few other communities [...]
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photo: Scroonch From Lancaster, Pennsylvania, through Ohio and Indiana and on out to other long-established settlements in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas, we tend to associate the Amish with the nation’s middle latitudes. Since their earliest years in America, the Amish have gravitated to the cooler climes of these corn and dairy regions. However, the Amish [...]
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The Amish arrange themselves into compact groupings known as church districts. Each district has its own name, usually a geographically-based one–Lamoni South, Randolph, and Crab Orchard are examples of places providing names for districts, these being found in Iowa, Mississippi, and Kentucky Amish communities. Since the Amish travel by horse-and-buggy to one another’s homes for [...]
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