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Why Amish Families Are Moving to the Missouri Ozarks—and Not Arkansas
Why are Amish families moving to the Missouri Ozarks while settlements across the border in Arkansas struggle to take root? Explore the economics and geography behind a migration bringing buggies, produce auctions and sawmills to rural Missouri.
With an Amish population exceeding 400,000 and doubling roughly every 20 years, growing communities need new farmland. Discover how high land prices in Lancaster County push young families to look elsewhere, and how Seymour, Missouri, became one of the state's largest Amish communities.
Learn why Arkansas has followed a different path, from Northwest…
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