Originally posted by ramseybuckeye The Amish in the next county over has grown a lot in the last 20 years. A lot of the new building they build look like pole barns with metal siding, but they build a house in part of it, so the structure may have a house and barn under the same roof. Many of the farms have 2 or 3 houses, multiple generations living on the same property.
I think one of the first buildings here might have been a kind of a dormitory for families to stay in before they have found or built their own houses. There's also a 1-room school, which is surrounded by buggies during the day when the children are there.
Back before the Great Depression, my mother attended the same 1-room school her father and his father attended. My brother attended a 4-room elementary school for his first 7 grades. I missed out on the tiny school experience because we moved.