Barn raising
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A barn raising, raising bee, or rearing is an action in which a barn for a resident of a community is built or rebuilt collectively by its members. Barn raising was particularly common in 18th- and 19
A barn raising, DeKalb County, Indiana, USA, about 1900
A barn raising north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the 20th century
Raising a barn in Eastern Ontario in the early 20th century
Amish
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The Amish, formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins. Because they maintain a degree of separation from surrou
Barn raising
…reasonably be presumed for each participant if the need were to arise. The tradition of "barn raising" continues, more or less unchanged, in some Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities, particularly in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and some rural parts of Canada. The practice continues outside of…
An Amish family riding in a traditional Amish buggy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Cover of The Amish and the Mennonites, 1938
Red barns are common on Amish farms.
A view of Amish farms from westbound US 30