Mennonite Meeting House. Two separate Conservative Mennonite "Plain" Sects use and maintain this House of worship. Religious services are held by the groups on alternating Sunday monrings.
Mennonite Courting Buggy. Generally used by unmarried Old Order Mennonite boys, the bachelor buggy has no top or a convertible-type tilt top. Family buggies are completely enclosed by curtained sides.
Early Pennsylvania Dutch bedroom features authentic origina furnishings - pine chest, cannonball bed, step-down Windsor rocker and handmade carpet loomed in Manheim.
Hope Lodge, near Philadelphia, was built in the first half of the 18th century. A bedroom fireplace is framed with tiles from Holland, as are several others. The use of two horizontal panels over the fireplace is a typical procedure of the period. Courtesy Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Wintertime at Shand's Bridge. This picturesque "crossing of the Conestoga" is off US 222 at Pinetown Road near the village of Oregon and Conestoga Motor Inn. A Burr-truss type, it was built in 1867 and is 133 feet long.
"Hart of Amishland" Strasburg Railroad "The Road to Paradies" - is America's Oldest Shortline Railroad, founded in 1832. Located on Route 741 at Strasburg - Lancaster County, Pa. - this historic train travels regularly between Strasburg & Paradise, thru beatiful Penna. Dutch Amish farm country.
Nolt's Point Mill Bridge. This picturesque "crossing of the Conestoga" is off US Route 222 at Pinetown Road near Village of Oregan and Conestoga Motor Inn. A Burr-truss type, it was built in 1867 and 133 feet long.