Maine Amish

Maine is now home to five Amish settlements, up from three just a few years ago. Thanks to reader Judy for passing along an excellent article on the Amish of the Fort Fairfield area, in Maine’s northernmost county of Aroostook. This piece in Down East Magazine traces the path of the 6-year-old community via interviews […]

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Being a bit off the beaten path, we haven’t had too much on this site about Amish communities in Maine.  A reader recently visited the settlement at Unity and had the following story and photos to share.  — My family was up in Maine this past weekend looking at land to purchase in Unity or […]

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The only Amish in New England are found in Maine.  Today there are 3 communities in the state. You can read more at the new State Guide entry on Maine Amish, with info on Unity Amish donuts, more Maine Amish photos, the unusual origin story of the Smyrna Amish community, as well as a video on […]

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Smyrna, Maine Amish photo: localism.com Maine is a state that has never had a significant Amish presence.  Maine currently has 3 settlements of one church district each.  Bangor Daily News features an article today about a new Maine Amish community (no longer online), recently formed by Amish from Kentucky, Missouri, and a settlement in Smyrna […]

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Just got a hot tip from the Young Center that the 2009 Amish population statistics are up at the Amish Studies web site. A couple quick things I noticed between this year’s and last year’s numbers:  on the lower end, Arkansas has jumped from 1 to 3 settlements, and the Maine Amish, Montana Amish, and […]

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An AP story has just hit the wire on population growth among the Amish.  This coincides with the release of additional information on trends in Amish growth and migration from here at the Young Center. The Amish studies site now lists trend data for the 1992 to 2008 period as well as the 2007 to […]

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