There are settlements of Amish all around the nation but a large number live in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Amish are a group of plain people who are similar to but different than the Mennonite.
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — About 100 miles west of Washington ... Burwell-Perry was already knocking doors and visiting area barns to register even more Amish to participate in the next election.
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.