While rural areas are often hampered by young talent moving away for better job opportunities, many Holmes County natives ...

The group emerged from a doctrinal split between the Amish of Holmes County, Ohio, in the 1910s, and takes its name from Bishop Samuel Swartzentruber. Ammon Swartzentruber’s relationship to the bishop ...

A television reality crew has arrived in town to document facts about an isolated Amish sect called the Swartzentruber Amish. But their plans change, and filming is interrupted after the death of ...

Swartzentruber Amish are a conservative sub-group of Amish that formed in Holmes County more than a century ago. They are more restrictive than progressive Amish on what technologies can be used.

Hundreds of Amish and their neighbors are already repairing and reconstructing homes, a church, schools and farm buildings in the quarter-mile-wide path of destruction in the White Horse area.