The USA TODAY Network news sites in Ohio and Pennsylvania will be diving deep into the Amish − their culture, their lifestyles, interactions outside of the communities and more − throughout 2025.

As a result, there are now Amish communities in 32 states, and places like Ohio, which have long had an Amish presence, have more settlements than before. In fact, Ohio has added about 170 new church ...

In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the Ohio government: instead of marking their vehicles with an orange ...

Amish tourism is big business in Pennsylvania, Ohio and, to a lesser extent, Indiana. The country’s largest Amish community, estimated at more than 92,000, settled in Lancaster County, attracted to ...

The bookmobile came about thanks to a grant from the State Library of Ohio in 1986. At that time, it made one day of stops in the Amish communities of Middlefield and Parkman.

That rapid growth means Amish communities in Ohio, and across the country, are expanding to new places. “We have now more Amish people living in more places than they ever did before,” Nolt said.