Posted: 07.29.2010

The population of Amish is growing in
North America, and their search for affordable, fertile farmland is
sending them into new areas to accommodate a population currently
estimated at 249,000.

A study to be released Wednesday by Elizabethtown College's
Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies shows settlements
in 28 states and Ontario. Amish have even been scouting for land
recently in Alaska and Mexico.

The number of Amish has increased nearly 10 percent in the past
two years alone, and it's more than doubled since 1992.
Nearly all Amish are descended from a group of about 5,000 in
the early 20th century.
 

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