The film explores the history and lifestyle of the Amish community, tracing their origins from Swiss dissenters in the 17th century who sought to live according to the teachings of Jesus. It ...

Most people would be surprised to know that in parts of Ohio there are still many one-room schoolhouses. This has come about because of the high number of Amish and Mennonite people who have settled ...

HARMONY, MINN. – Eddie Swartzentruber’s childhood growing up in Minnesota’s Driftless Area was different than many of his “worldly” neighbors. There was no TV or video games — or even electricity, for ...

The Amish arrived late among the European settlers of Lancaster County, establishing the first church district north of Eden beginning in 1741. The original members of that district were Garbers, ...

ARTHUR, Ill. — The sight of a barn going up in the heart of Amish country in Douglas County is an exciting step for the future of the Illinois Amish Heritage Center. But the recent raising of the ...

In the mid-1700s, Amish families fleeing persecution in Europe settled in what is now Berks and Lancaster counties. The Amish in Berks County were known as the Northkill settlement, named after the ...

An aerial view shows the scope of the effort to relocate a nearly 150-year-old barn from a Douglas County farm to the Illinois Amish Heritage Center campus in the heart of Amish country, between ...