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GENIAL TIMELINE
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From Religious Persecution to Settling in America: A General Timeline of Amish-American History
1737
1807
1683
Over the next 50 years, 3,000 Amish will immigrate to North America from Europe.
The Charming Nancy sets sail for North America from the Netherlands with 21 Amish families. Over the next three decades, about 100 families will make the crossing.
Thirteen Mennonite families arrive in Pennsylvania, seeking religious freedom. They found Germantown six miles north of the city of Philadelphia.
About 1.4 million telephones are in service across the country, including some in Amish homes. "Party lines" are shared by multiple families, and several Amish groups begin debating the dangers that home telephones present to the community. At this time, the Amish population in America numbers around 6,000 and over the next 30 years it will more than double. While still concentrated in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, new Amish settlements are growing in Kansas, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Oklahoma and Delaware
Amid Amish settlements, various churches debate over dress code, separation from society, and use of technology such as photography. The intensifying debates culminate in the first all-church Amish ministers' conference in Wayne County, Ohio (Diener-Versammlung,) which will occur almost annually until 1878. The more conservative Amish depart 1865's Diener-Versammlung dissatisfied, and trigger a gradual, but, major division within Amish communities in North America. For the first time, the more conservative flank becomes known as "Old Order" Amish because they cling to the Old Ordnung. The more progressive Amish become Amish-Mennonites, and slowly over several decades become assimilated into Mennonite churches.
Communities in Pennsylvania and around the country establish one-room public schools, which typically run through the eighth grade with one teacher for all students. In many areas, Amish and English children attend the same schools and leave around age 14 to work on their family farms.
1844
1910s
1862-1865