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 ...

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

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.

Lancaster County is the world’s second-largest Amish settlement (after Holmes County, Ohio), with approximately 33,000 people. Paramount Pictures looked at about 350 Pennsylvania farms in search ...