South Dakota Amish

South Dakota became the latest addition to the Amish map in 2010 when families from Wisconsin began moving to Hutchinson County in the southeast part of the state.  The group got a good bit of media attention along with other new Amish communities in Western states such as Colorado. South Dakota is better known as [...]

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Just got word the new Amish population stats are up on the Young Center Amish Studies web site. The big shocker is Pennsylvania coming in ahead of the Ohio Amish, and Lancaster County a hair ahead of Holmes County (by 25 people, which means that if Holmes County delivers more babies this week, they could [...]

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