: 35 Four affiliations, the New Order Amish, Old Order Amish, Andy Weaver, and Swartzentruber, as of 2010 made up about 97% of church districts in the settlement, with the Old Order Amish the largest portion. The settlement includes eleven separate Amish affiliations. The Holmes County community includes multiple affiliations or orders : 142 : 6 and is the most highly-concentrated, diverse and complex of Amish settlements worldwide. Ohio's largest settlement is centered around Holmes County and in 2021 included an estimated 37,770 children and adults, the second largest in the world after the population of 41,000 centered around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Holmes County An Amish mother on a shopping trip. Including all communities, Ohio has the second-largest population of Old Order Amish in the world, with in 2021 an estimated 80,240 members, second to Pennsylvania with approximately 84,000, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Holmes County has the highest concentration in the world, with the Amish in 2010 making up approximately half the population, and the largest population of Amish of all orders. You have to be close enough to a town with the basic necessities." Population Sunday traffic in Carroll County
: 130 Ohio State University researcher Joseph Donnermeyer called Ohio "the perfect mix", saying, "You can't be too rural. : 8 Ohio's rural counties are attractive to Old Order Amish because travel by horse-and-buggy requires essential services such as shopping, banks and medical care to be within a distance manageable by that method of transportation, which limits travel to about 10 to 35 miles per day depending on various factors. : 148–149 : 37Īs of 2010 there were over fifty Amish settlements in Ohio : 25 and 418 congregations, more than any other state. : 37 The New Order Amish, considered the most technologically liberal, split off in the 1960s. : 148 : 37 The Andy Weaver order split off in the 1950s. : 146 The Schwartzentruber Amish, considered the most conservative of Amish orders, split off in the 1910s. : 42–43 : 60 During the 1900s, the Holmes County community experienced multiple schisms into over thirty different groups, birthing several new orders and some that eventually became non-Amish. : 27 īeginning in the 1860s, a schism between conservative Amish, centered in Holmes County but occurring throughout North American Amish communities, separated the Amish into the Old Order Amish and the Amish Mennonites, most of whom merged into Mennonite communities. In 1818 the government decreased the land prices from $2 per acre to $1.25 and by 1835, the Holmes County settlement included two hundred and fifty families. : 27 In 1810 six families and in 1811 two more families from Somerset County joined the Walnut Creek settlement. The Millers settled in Tuscarawas, and Stutzman continued on to the area of the current village of Walnut Creek, about five miles west, and built a cabin on the creek. The rest of the family, including Miller's nephew Jonas Stutzman, returned the next year in a Conestoga pulled by a team of six, a trip that took a month. Henry overwintered on the claim, and the other two returned to Pennsylvania for the winter. Jacob Miller and his sons, Henry and Jacob, travelled in 1808 from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and built a cabin northeast of the current village of Sugarcreek in Tuscarawas County. : 139Īt the time of the Holmes County settlement's founding there was at least one sizable village of Native Americans on the northern edge of what would become Holmes County, near the Killbuck river. The Holmes County community was founded in 1808 and the Geauga County community in 1886.
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Ohio's Amish Country in and around Holmes County is one of the state's primary tourist attractions and a major driver of the area's economy. The second largest community in Ohio is centered around Geauga County. Ohio's largest Amish settlement is centered around Holmes County and in 2021 included an estimated 37,770 children and adults, the second largest in the world and the highest concentration of Amish in any US county the Amish make up half the population of Holmes County, with members of other closely related Anabaptist Christian denominations, such as the Mennonites, residing there as well. The Ohio Amish Country, also known simply as the Amish Country, is the second-largest community of Amish (a Pennsylvania Dutch group) in the world, with in 2021 an estimated 80,240 members according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. Pennsylvania Dutch, High German, English The largest settlements of Amish in Ohio are centered around Holmes County (in red) and Geauga County (in pink).
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