Over the past couple of years, Strasburg Township's zoning office in Pennsylvania found itself fielding more and more requests from Amish people to house horses on residential lots. Most Amish in ...

When: Strasburg Township Board of Supervisors meeting, April 7. What happened: Supervisors invited and received input from the audience regarding building on farmland, specifically with regard to ...

Washingtonians travel to Lancaster County, Pa., about 2½ hours from the Capital Beltway, for a glimpse of Amish life. Horse-drawn buggies. Men in broad-brimmed black hats. Women in bonnets and long ...

GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) — In booming Lancaster, among the fastest growing counties in Pennsylvania, large Amish families and the cost of farmland has put pressure on the traditional lives they prefer.

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther west, researchers said. “It is growing fast,” said Kyle Kopko, an Amish ...

Three Old Order Amish farmers in Paradise Township were hesitant. Last year, each individually expressed interest in selling their farms' permanent land development rights to the Lancaster Farmland ...

A voting advertisement geared toward the Amish population of Lancaster County is displayed on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Strasburg, Pa. On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn ...

STRASBURG, Pa. (AP) — The 82-acre farm featured in the 1985 movie thriller “Witness” is tucked into a small valley, hidden from the view of travelers on Lancaster County’s back roads. But that hasn’t ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther west, researchers said. “It is growing fast,” said Kyle Kopko, an Amish ...