Amish Communities

We’ve got a selection of photos from a Swartzentruber Amish settlement in Missouri today. This is Shannon County; this is in the vicinity of Summersville and Hartshorn. The photo collection is by Don Burke, who has passed through this community several times over the years. The community was started in 2006 according to the State […]

Continue Reading A Virtual Visit To A Small & Plain Amish Community (35 Photos)

Fourteen Amish families settled in a corner of Kansas (Hartford in Lyon County) in the summer of 2020. That community just held a benefit to raise funds for a new school (article in the Emporia Gazette). Amishman Eddie Yoder explained that the event had two purposes: “to raise money for a much-needed school building and […]

Continue Reading Kansas Amish Hold Benefit For New School – And To Meet The English

I did a video giving my list of five friendliest Amish communities. I also discuss one well-known and large community that did not make the list. And, at the end I share two communities that I consider not-so-friendly, and why. If you’d like to see the written version of this video, you can find that […]

Continue Reading 5 Friendliest Amish Communities (& 2 Not-so-friendly) [Video]

I’ve got some photos of the community at Daviess County, Indiana to share with you today. These were taken by a friend of mine and emailed to me several years ago. For whatever reason, at the time I didn’t get around to posting them. I wanted to share them because we have surprisingly relatively little […]

Continue Reading The Amish of Daviess County, Indiana (17 Photos)

There are around 600 Amish settlements across North America, with new settlements being started at a rate of about one every 10 days. You may have even seen Amish start a new community near you recently – or you might sometime soon. At the same time, many Amish settlements have failed over the years. There […]

Continue Reading The 25 Amish Communities At Least 100 Years Old

An Amishman in Canada finds himself in an unusual and likely unique situation, serving as bishop for two Amish churches – one in New Brunswick province, and the other just across the border in the US, in Maine. That’s one of a number of interesting details in Gabriel Arsenault’s article  “Understanding Amish Migrations to New […]

Continue Reading The Amish Bishop With Churches In Two Countries

I just came across a video of the Beeville, Texas Amish showing footage from around the community. The video is six years old. I am not sure how I missed it before. We’ve had a half dozen or so posts on this community over the years, including one by Kevin Williams with a video showing […]

Continue Reading Ride Through The Only Texas Amish Community (Video)

This is part 2 of Peter Santenello’s visit to the Amish of Pinecraft (if you missed part 1, that’s here). It continues with the same uplifting feel as Peter walks around the community, meets lots of friendly Pinecrafters, and continues learning about this new-to-him people. In this part he catches a Bocce ball game, sits […]

Continue Reading Meeting The Amish Of Pinecraft (Video – Part 2)

I mentioned this idea of Amish “supercounties” in a recent post. This is the term I came up with to describe counties containing a large number of individual Amish communities. For one reason or another, these are counties which have just drawn Amish to settle in them, repeatedly. An alternate term might be “Amish-friendly counties”. […]

Continue Reading Amish “Supercounties”

Since yesterday, several people have reached out to let me know about this new video (including one Amish friend). This is by YouTube filmmaker Peter Santenello (new to me), who makes videos about different cultures in the US and around the world. In this two-part series, Peter walks around Pinecraft speaking with Amish people, as […]

Continue Reading Meeting The Amish Of Pinecraft (Video – Part 1)