California Amish

Five Californias-full of Amish

Byerik
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lithograph:  Stan Jolley An Amish friend recently pointed out that the Amish population (roughly 220,000 today), currently doubling in size every 20-odd years, will hit a million sometime in the 2050s. For what it’s worth, 200 years from now, if current trends hold (a huge ‘if’), we should expect to see…204 million Amish on the planet. That would be over five times the current population…

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A California Amish Community

Byerik
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Throughout the 1800’s and 1900’s through today, adventurous Amish have pioneered new communities in places hitherto unknown to their people. One such group set its sights on California in 1913–the first and only attempt to settle in America’s ‘foremost farm state’.  With its vast farmlands, you’d think the location would make a good match for the agrarian Amish. But apparently not–a year later, the settlement…